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Chris H, Reviewer
Tudor kings and queens are easy, aren't they?
There's Henry VII, victor of the Battle of Bosworth and a miser and then Henry VIII with his six wives.. Then there are the two queens: the tyrant 'Bloody' Mary and Good Queen Bess herself, the Virgin Queen,, Elizabeth I.
But what about the awkward middle Tudor, the Virgin King Edward VI? The oldest son of Henry VIII and his third wife, Jane Seymour, the young monarch ruled for six years between 1547 and 1553, dying of tuberculosis before he came of age at the age of 16.
What sort of person was he? What were the key events of his short life and reign? Just how Protestant was he? Would he have grown up to be another tyrant or a more benevolent ruler?
Stephanie Kline's book aims to fill in the blanks about the boy king who inspired Mark Twain's, The Prince and the Pauper.
There's Henry VII, victor of the Battle of Bosworth and a miser and then Henry VIII with his six wives.. Then there are the two queens: the tyrant 'Bloody' Mary and Good Queen Bess herself, the Virgin Queen,, Elizabeth I.
But what about the awkward middle Tudor, the Virgin King Edward VI? The oldest son of Henry VIII and his third wife, Jane Seymour, the young monarch ruled for six years between 1547 and 1553, dying of tuberculosis before he came of age at the age of 16.
What sort of person was he? What were the key events of his short life and reign? Just how Protestant was he? Would he have grown up to be another tyrant or a more benevolent ruler?
Stephanie Kline's book aims to fill in the blanks about the boy king who inspired Mark Twain's, The Prince and the Pauper.
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