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Q1. How long have you been ill and what did ailment did you die from?
Not a nice subject for my first question but one that is in the minds of many.
The Measles virus suppresses the host immunity to tuberculosis. Tuberculosis and measles was always important negative factors in childhood survival rates though never really understood and passed off as fragility, particularly in poorer countries.
I suffered from rapidly progressive tuberculosis that developed after I had measles.
Q2. Why were you never Prince of Wales?
That is a good question. Not enough time is the shortest answer, I became King at 10 year's old, my Father intended for me to become Prince of Wales but he died too soon. I stayed Duke of Cornwall then became King.
There is a strange Historical error! Holbein was hired to paint my portrait by my Father, his initial sketch shows me with my title "Prince of Wales", My Father Died before the painting was completed.
Look at this copy, the wrong title in in the top left hand corner.
Q3. Was it you that started the change from Catholic to Protestant faiths?
I must say that this is a simplistic view, the Protestant movement did not start here in England you must look to Europe for that deed.
Although my Father, Henry VIII ,had quarrelled with the Pope he never became a Protestant, nor did he wish the religion of the country to be changed. But my Mother , Queen Jane Seymour had been a Protestant and so was her brother who was now my Uncle and Protector. As King Edward VI ,I had been brought up in the new religion and although I had very little power at first, I did envisage the country as a Protestant nation.
Q4. Did you get on well with your Sister Mary?
Why do I get all the hard questions?
Here is an extract from my journal of 1551:
"The lady Mary, my sister, came to me to Westminster, where after greetings she was called with my council into a chamber where it was declared how long I had suffered her mass, in hope of her reconciliation, and how now, there being no hope as I saw by her letters, unless I saw some speedy amendment I could not bear it. She answered that her soul was God's and her faith she would not change, nor hide her opinion with dissembled doings. It was said I did not constrain her faith but willed her only as a subject to obey. And that her example might lead to too much inconvenience.
On 19 March the emperor's ambassador came with a short message from his master of threatened war, if I would not allow his cousin the princess to use her mass. No answer was given to this at the time.
The following day the bishops of Canterbury, London and Rochester, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley and John Scory, concluded that to give licence to sin was sin; to allow and wink at it for a time might be born as long as all possible haste was used."
No is the answer, Mary was too stubborn and would not let her religious beliefs change at all, causing a "near-war" with The Holy Roman Empire and making me look silly by ignoring my pleas.
Remeber Mary was a lot older than me and saw me as her silly young brother with views influenced by my Uncles and Cranmer, whom she always hated.
Q5. Why did you let Northumberland persuade you to write your will containing a recipe for civil war?
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John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.
I didn't see it that way at the time, I was convinced that a Roman Catholic Queen with the cruel nature of Mary would be most harmful to this nation and that a Protestant Queen from a Protestant and prior Catholic family would carry the faith forward without bloodshed.
In my will I intended that Mary and Elizabeth were to be excluded from the throne, as not sufficiently understanding of religious flexibility; Mary Stuart was to be ignored as being under Scottish, Catholic and French influence; the Duchess of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's mother, was excluded because she was married, and the Duke her husband might claim the Crown by their marriage. In fact, all females were excluded, except Jane, on the grounds that no woman could reign; even she was excluded in the first draft, and the crown was left to "the Lady Jane's heirs male." But this draft was manipulated so as to read "the Lady Jane and her heirs male." She certainly did not want to be Queen of England and even feinted when told.
Q6 to Q11
Dear Edward.
1. What was your graces most fondest memories with your father, the late great Henry VIII?
2. Did you love your sisters?
3. If your graces mother, queen Jane would have lived, would you have had a close relationship with her?
4. Your grace’s, father was careful about what you were allowed to do.
5. Did he ever let you play with other children or did he shield you away?
My Sister told me about your questioning
1. Being stood next to him dressed in smaller versions of the same clothing.
2. I loved both my sisters yet Mary seems to be less thrilled with me. Elizabeth was a wonderful sister. I also knew my half brother Henry Carey. He became a councillor on my court.
3. My Mother loved me for the 13 days she lived after my birth, I’m so happy she had some time left for us both. We would have been very close had she lived and I believe my father would have been much happier too.
4. I was cosseted somewhat, everybody was scared about my well being. Riding horses which could not gallop, no tilt yards. My Uncle Seymour was in charge of my welfare.
5. I had 5 other children as close friends in my Palace schooling. We played together bu we were not allowed rough and tumble games.
Q.12 Hi Edward
Your two sisters were a lot older than you, were they affectionate towards you?
We Tudors have our own households and were not to live together in case of murder or disease took us all away together. So you could say, my sisters were not that close, but when together they showed me lots of affection and played with me. My eldest sister Mary was a fully grown woman who looked on me a near nephew rather than brother, I think she would rather I were not even born as I will take her throne. Elizabeth plays with me and I adore her.
Q.13. Hi Edward
What was your childhood like? was it a happy one?
Thank you,
Jay
Being cosseted was my childhood both by my Father and my uncles Seymour. I could not do anything that may harm me, so hunting and riding were not offered. It was because it took a lot of time to get a son and heir and they would not risk an accident.
I had poor health from about 9 years of age, similar really to my late Uncle Arthur who would have been King if he has not died early. I liked my Uncle Thomas Seymour as he played with me and had a more carefree attitude. I liked Father's Nonsuch Palace where I was taught to be a King, some riding but not fast and always with lots of people to nursemaid me.
My Sisters are entirely different from each other, Mary is more like a mother figure though see tries hard to make me a Roman Catholic and the Seymours the other way towards being a Protestant. I would rather be a Protestant as it seems a much fairer religion towards the poor people who will be my subjects one day. Elizabeth is great fun, she plays and tricks me all the time, I think she is a Protestant underneath too but won't admit to it openly as Father is head of the English Catholic Church. We don't actually live together these days, fear of plague and traitor’s whish cold wipe the Tudor line out in one foul stroke. I see Elizabeth regularly but Mary less so as I think Father is still angry with her resistance to the annulment of her Mother. I think I will make them both Princess again when I become King of England.
The answer to your question about happiness.
I really don’t know any better way of life than this, but I do know I am lonely and bored a lot and really look forward to visits from my Sisters and Thomas Seymour. Father loves me dearly but he has been hurt so much by others around him I can see tears in his eyes even when he is not crying.
EdwardR
Q1. How long have you been ill and what did ailment did you die from?
Not a nice subject for my first question but one that is in the minds of many.
The Measles virus suppresses the host immunity to tuberculosis. Tuberculosis and measles was always important negative factors in childhood survival rates though never really understood and passed off as fragility, particularly in poorer countries.
I suffered from rapidly progressive tuberculosis that developed after I had measles.
Q2. Why were you never Prince of Wales?
That is a good question. Not enough time is the shortest answer, I became King at 10 year's old, my Father intended for me to become Prince of Wales but he died too soon. I stayed Duke of Cornwall then became King.
There is a strange Historical error! Holbein was hired to paint my portrait by my Father, his initial sketch shows me with my title "Prince of Wales", My Father Died before the painting was completed.
Look at this copy, the wrong title in in the top left hand corner.
Q3. Was it you that started the change from Catholic to Protestant faiths?
I must say that this is a simplistic view, the Protestant movement did not start here in England you must look to Europe for that deed.
Although my Father, Henry VIII ,had quarrelled with the Pope he never became a Protestant, nor did he wish the religion of the country to be changed. But my Mother , Queen Jane Seymour had been a Protestant and so was her brother who was now my Uncle and Protector. As King Edward VI ,I had been brought up in the new religion and although I had very little power at first, I did envisage the country as a Protestant nation.
Q4. Did you get on well with your Sister Mary?
Why do I get all the hard questions?
Here is an extract from my journal of 1551:
"The lady Mary, my sister, came to me to Westminster, where after greetings she was called with my council into a chamber where it was declared how long I had suffered her mass, in hope of her reconciliation, and how now, there being no hope as I saw by her letters, unless I saw some speedy amendment I could not bear it. She answered that her soul was God's and her faith she would not change, nor hide her opinion with dissembled doings. It was said I did not constrain her faith but willed her only as a subject to obey. And that her example might lead to too much inconvenience.
On 19 March the emperor's ambassador came with a short message from his master of threatened war, if I would not allow his cousin the princess to use her mass. No answer was given to this at the time.
The following day the bishops of Canterbury, London and Rochester, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley and John Scory, concluded that to give licence to sin was sin; to allow and wink at it for a time might be born as long as all possible haste was used."
No is the answer, Mary was too stubborn and would not let her religious beliefs change at all, causing a "near-war" with The Holy Roman Empire and making me look silly by ignoring my pleas.
Remeber Mary was a lot older than me and saw me as her silly young brother with views influenced by my Uncles and Cranmer, whom she always hated.
Q5. Why did you let Northumberland persuade you to write your will containing a recipe for civil war?
John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.
I didn't see it that way at the time, I was convinced that a Roman Catholic Queen with the cruel nature of Mary would be most harmful to this nation and that a Protestant Queen from a Protestant and prior Catholic family would carry the faith forward without bloodshed.
In my will I intended that Mary and Elizabeth were to be excluded from the throne, as not sufficiently understanding of religious flexibility; Mary Stuart was to be ignored as being under Scottish, Catholic and French influence; the Duchess of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's mother, was excluded because she was married, and the Duke her husband might claim the Crown by their marriage. In fact, all females were excluded, except Jane, on the grounds that no woman could reign; even she was excluded in the first draft, and the crown was left to "the Lady Jane's heirs male." But this draft was manipulated so as to read "the Lady Jane and her heirs male." She certainly did not want to be Queen of England and even feinted when told.
Q6 to Q11
Dear Edward.
1. What was your graces most fondest memories with your father, the late great Henry VIII?
2. Did you love your sisters?
3. If your graces mother, queen Jane would have lived, would you have had a close relationship with her?
4. Your grace’s, father was careful about what you were allowed to do.
5. Did he ever let you play with other children or did he shield you away?
My Sister told me about your questioning
1. Being stood next to him dressed in smaller versions of the same clothing.
2. I loved both my sisters yet Mary seems to be less thrilled with me. Elizabeth was a wonderful sister. I also knew my half brother Henry Carey. He became a councillor on my court.
3. My Mother loved me for the 13 days she lived after my birth, I’m so happy she had some time left for us both. We would have been very close had she lived and I believe my father would have been much happier too.
4. I was cosseted somewhat, everybody was scared about my well being. Riding horses which could not gallop, no tilt yards. My Uncle Seymour was in charge of my welfare.
5. I had 5 other children as close friends in my Palace schooling. We played together bu we were not allowed rough and tumble games.
Q.12 Hi Edward
Your two sisters were a lot older than you, were they affectionate towards you?
We Tudors have our own households and were not to live together in case of murder or disease took us all away together. So you could say, my sisters were not that close, but when together they showed me lots of affection and played with me. My eldest sister Mary was a fully grown woman who looked on me a near nephew rather than brother, I think she would rather I were not even born as I will take her throne. Elizabeth plays with me and I adore her.
Q.13. Hi Edward
What was your childhood like? was it a happy one?
Thank you,
Jay
Being cosseted was my childhood both by my Father and my uncles Seymour. I could not do anything that may harm me, so hunting and riding were not offered. It was because it took a lot of time to get a son and heir and they would not risk an accident.
I had poor health from about 9 years of age, similar really to my late Uncle Arthur who would have been King if he has not died early. I liked my Uncle Thomas Seymour as he played with me and had a more carefree attitude. I liked Father's Nonsuch Palace where I was taught to be a King, some riding but not fast and always with lots of people to nursemaid me.
My Sisters are entirely different from each other, Mary is more like a mother figure though see tries hard to make me a Roman Catholic and the Seymours the other way towards being a Protestant. I would rather be a Protestant as it seems a much fairer religion towards the poor people who will be my subjects one day. Elizabeth is great fun, she plays and tricks me all the time, I think she is a Protestant underneath too but won't admit to it openly as Father is head of the English Catholic Church. We don't actually live together these days, fear of plague and traitor’s whish cold wipe the Tudor line out in one foul stroke. I see Elizabeth regularly but Mary less so as I think Father is still angry with her resistance to the annulment of her Mother. I think I will make them both Princess again when I become King of England.
The answer to your question about happiness.
I really don’t know any better way of life than this, but I do know I am lonely and bored a lot and really look forward to visits from my Sisters and Thomas Seymour. Father loves me dearly but he has been hurt so much by others around him I can see tears in his eyes even when he is not crying.
EdwardR