BREAKING Into The Tomb Of The Tragic Tudor Boy King

[@percivalthemimicknight2733]

I can't help but feel bad for this kid, nobody should have so much stress at such a young age.

[@splashenful]

Yes. Him & Lady Jane Grey.

[@Bildgesmythe]

The past was horrible.

[@splashenful]

@@Bildgesmythe Still is, right up to this very day.

[@Bildgesmythe]

@@splashenful at least we have modern medicine and some rights.

[@splashenful]

@@Bildgesmythe True. Still, even in this day & age, life can be rough.

[@CaptainPikeachu]

Edward’s story is indeed often overlooked and not focused on, it’s not until the recent “Becoming Elizabeth” show did I finally see a story that actually depicts Edward in any significant way.

[@richardc8795]

Sadly, Becoming Elizabeth was cancelled.

[@kcbowman4042]

Edward was just as ruthless and controlling as Big Fat Daddy.

[@ladyv5655]

He died a horrible death but he was on his way to becoming as much of a monster as his father. He started keeping a diary of sorts when he became king and he wrote very coldly about his sisters and he was indifferent about the executions of his uncles, Edward and Thomas Seymour.

[@corneliashields9202]

It has been speculated Edward VI was killed by being poisoned because some people did not like the way he was turning out.

[@dirremoire]

I wholeheartedly agree. Were it not for his death at a young age, he would be remembered as "Bloody Edward".

[@corneliashields9202]

@@dirremoire you agree he wasn't nice or you agree somebody actually poisoned him?

[@carinafourie9119]

Possibly Northumberland himself to get his son on the throne, but there’s no proof of this. He was the only one with means, motive and opportunity and daily access to him.

[@joycebrown1413]

He was becoming a Religious Fanatic like his older sister Mary l

[@muttstersmart]

While I feel pity for this kid, and don’t think he was a bad person, the way he treated his half-sisters was appalling. I know he was only young, but he constantly tried to pressure Mary to convert to Protestantism and constantly tried to marry Elizabeth off even when she said she wasn’t ready to (it was common for Kings to send away their daughters to get married, but Elizabeth was young when these engagements happened). However, I can appreciate he was stressed and he definitely didn’t deserve his horrific death. I think the new show “Becoming Elizabeth” is great at showing all three of the Tudor siblings lives and feelings. R.I.P Edward.

[@wenthulk8439]

I agree with on that.

[@spencerfrankclayton4348]

It's hard to know how much of certain decisions were his, or strongly influenced by his overseers. By the time he died, he was no child; he was dead set on making sure his own sisters didn't get the throne. Although he was close to Elizabeth, his efforts to remove her from the line disturbed her enough to promptly congratulate Mary on being proclaimed queen.

[@brentmichael4770]

Same goes for all of Englands Queens, all puppets have a handler in the background. Elizabeth essentially confirms this as she claims on her death bed that it wasnt even her who commanded the death of Mary, she was just doing as she was told!

[@BaddaBigBoom]

He was a very intelligent boy, well educated, fluent in several languages and was already beginning to take on the role of king at such a young age, he loved to ride and hunt and spent significant time on horseback he was badly treated by some family members, one of whom shot his pet dog before abducting him and effectively imprisoning him at Windsor Castle. The portrait of him in Hampton Court's Processional Gallery captures the burdon of illness and the pressures put on him at such a young age. I was standing in front of this portrait a week ago. I felt a coldness in this place, it is generally referred to as the "Haunted Gallery". Rex Edwardus Deus benedicat tibi

[@brober]

Were there any remains in the lead coffin. This part seems to have been omitted?

[@paulguise698]

Why do they have to dig these bodies up? just leave them alone, Mary Queen Of Scots was only 6 days old when she became Queen, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England

[@Clipgatherer]

I wonder where they buried Tom Canty, his pauper lookalike.

[@malcolmhouston7932]

Is that a joke?

[@Clipgatherer]

@@malcolmhouston7932 It sure is. No disrespect intended, however.

[@pianoboylaker6560]

Of course it was a joke. You didn't think otherwise did you? Tom Canty is a ficticious character in Mark Twain's book.

[@elysamoulding7690]

Notice his ears in all the portraits. They look elf-like.

[@cmcg9035]

That was a smart place to hide the altar in the Civil War, as both Edward VI and the Roundheads wanted a barren version of Protestantism that would cancel any fun at all. Of all the places in Westminster Abbey, that would have been the last place they would have desecrated.

[@joebutterman3084]

Very little real information here.

[@chrispenny3965]

Can NO ONE leave the dead alone? If u r exhumed only 4 times u seem 2 b lucky. Ghoulish.

[@Bildgesmythe]

The dead don't care.

[@chrispenny3965]

@@Bildgesmythe decency does. What else do u like doing?

[@angelaclements1244]

@@Bildgesmythe I often see people write let them rest in peace don't disturb their rest .. a brass band wouldn't disturb their rest

[@phineas117]

I too, have always felt pity for this boy. Son of Henry the 8th, mother died shortly after his birth.....two half sisters, both from different moms, same dad. and died young. poor boy....many "commoners" had better luck.

[@winnifredforbes1114]

Feel sorry for anyone related to Henry VIII ! He was the devil incarnate!😱

[@janicem9225]

@@winnifredforbes1114 The son is NOT the father! It's one thing to dislike Henry, but you don't throw the hatred OR the burden of those sins, onto the children, because they are individuals and not responsible for their parent's crimes! You sound like a sick minded person to feel no pity for a teenager who suffered hell on earth before he died. Do you have any idea what extreme respiratory illness, and distress, coupled with immense pain does to a person? I sure do. I know what it's like to have severe respiratory issues coupled with chronic pain, faintness and weakness from it, and I couldn't wish it on anyone else. It's such a horrible feeling to me, so I know how horrible it was for him. When you endure terrible illness and pain which is similar to what someone else suffered or suffers, you learn to have great pity for the sufferings of others, both from the past and the present. May you never have to know what that sort of suffering is like.

[@phineas117]

@@winnifredforbes1114 true that. the only one who came out "ahead" was anne of cleves

[@mmhthree]

@@phineas117 Liz the 1st did fairly well

[@winnifredforbes1114]

@@phineas117 OH! Excellent play on words!😱😹🇨🇦

[@heliotropezzz333]

I read that Edward VI was treated with arsenic before he died which made his end even more horrific. Also he was said to be a learned rather serious and pious boy. He was taking the church in a more permanently protestant direction which is why he wanted Lady Jane Grey to succeed and not Catholic Mary. We don't know how much he was influenced by his Seymour Uncles but there doesn't seem to have been a difference of opinion between them.

[@dianetheisen8664]

I heard that he was given some sort of medicine (drugs) to make him live long enough to decided to have Lady Jane succeed him.

[@heliotropezzz333]

@@dianetheisen8664 The history book I read was called 'The Last Tudor King' by Hester W Chapman first published in 1958. It was very interesting. I don't know whether it's still available but most books can be ordered through libraries.

[@lizwhelan7212]

I believe that arsenic was a well used medicine in those days and for quite a few more years. If only they knew then what we know nowadays 😕.

[@malcolmhouston7932]

According to Edwards own journal, he struggled with the same problem that his father did and that was to provide a Male Heir. In spite of his Youth, he appeared to be aware that neither Mary or Elizabeth were likely to provide one and that his Cousin was more likely which is why he named her, as was the custom and thereby possibly brought about her death which was not his intention. Originally he had written that his successor should be Janes son but as he got closer to death, he realised that there was no time left for Jane to Marry and have a son and corrected this to Jane followed by her son. Apart from a debilitating Lung infection it is believed from his journal that he also had Typhoid , hinting this to best friend Barnaby Fitzpatrick, the boy he was educated with. ( Son of an Irish Baron, friend of Henry V11, not a "Whipping Boy" - pure invention by an American Author as there was never any such thing as a Whipping Boy - Times were cruel but they were never that stupid.

[@heliotropezzz333]

@@malcolmhouston7932 Thanks for that information

[@OnTheFritz602]

Excellent presentation! It's amazing how many people to this day believe Henry VIII never had a son, much less one that was crowned.

[@juliebarks3195]

He had two. I think the Earl of Rochester is buried in Suffolk.

[@danacantu6714]

I’m American and I’ve been obsessed with Tudor/British history since I was about 11 years old. I remember correcting my American history 8th grade teacher and a college professor when they said, “Henry VIII killed all his wives.” Also, “Henry VIII never had a son.” They were shocked lol

[@juliebarks3195]

@@danacantu6714 I corrected our English teacher when he said Anne Bolyne was seated in a chair when she had her head cut off. He shouted me down, and told me not to tell him things I knew nothing about.?

[@verenamaharajah6082]

They do? Never heard of that one.

[@johnfinnie1181]

@@juliebarks3195 officially 1 Aknoledged 2 But probably had 4 or 5 suspected children including Mary Bolyans 2 children

[@vajee5]

It’s amazing he lived as long as he did. So many of Henry 8’s babies were either stillborn or miscarried.

[@FreeSpirit47]

If Henry had been the one to go through pregnancy, labor, delivery & still born babies, he probably would have given up after just 2 or 3. Live or still. Henry created such a dysfunctional home for all who lived there. His reputation for brutality & violence was well known. A few women he sought to court found a way to slip away from him, smart choices.

[@karencarter18042]

The first three of his children all boys where born alive , but the first died at less than two months while the next two died shortly after birth . I do wonder if people are confusing stillborn with babies dying shortly after birth, cause it seems these three boys are forgotten.

[@seamusfallon3104]

​@@FreeSpirit47 you forgot the "u"

[@peternesbitt]

@@seamusfallon3104 The grammar police they come to me in my head, the grammar police they come to me in my bed. 😂

[@seamusfallon3104]

@@peternesbitt ????

[@dawnmason9558]

He started the King Edward VI school foundation There are 7 schools under the Foundation that carry his name. I was a pupil at the Handsworth King Edward VI Grammar school for girls.

[@jamiew6438]

His illness was horrific. No mother to comfort him. They cut his chest open , his lungs were covered in ulcers, it must have hurt so badly.

[@KatyWilson-df1qw]

Good God I hope this was after death my own son passes away of cancer at aged just 12 and a half years old he suffered as young Edward would have an all he evr wanted was me me me me an to think he had as u say no mummy an dad to comfort him such a harsh hand to have been dealt by life I heard he died in the arms of one of his advisors I hope he was in someones arms 😢 dear boy should be remberd more often 😢

[@jamiew6438]

@@KatyWilson-df1qw Sorry for the loss of your child , life passes by too quickly. Yes, they looked at his lungs after death. His last words were noted down if you want to read them they should be easy to find., Edward was eager to die after so much misery .

[@KatyWilson-df1qw]

@@jamiew6438 thanku much appreciated and yes I have read them very kind of u to reply with such a respectful comment God bless you

[@j0nnyism]

British royalty are never buried with anything valuable. I just wish people would be respectful and leave their remains alone. There needs a tremendous scientific imperative and only then for a disinterment in my opinion. May he be reunited with his beautiful kind and loving mother. The mother he never knew in life

[@trojanette8345]

Does anyone know.....When E6's vault was opened in the 19th century was their any report as to whether or not any remains, remained? Or, was it by that time (some 300 yrs later --just dust? Another question if anyone knows why was his head shaved and a 'plaster' put on? Is the word "plaster" used in the British sense to mean bandage, as in what you would put on a wound? Or, do you mean 'plaster' as a construction / builders technique of applying a 'plaster-like' liquid cast to an object? How and why was a plastering element used on E6? Please explain.

[@jamesrobiscoe1174]

If I'm not mistaken, I believe he is the basis for The Prince in Mark Twain's book "The Prince and the Pauper."

[@BaddaBigBoom]

That is true but there are many "embellishments" starting with the fact that king Edward VI was actually King from the age of nine and not "prince" at the age of 12. Still, it's quite a good story despite the anachronisms :-)

[@corvettedm1]

Thank you for reminding me to read that one again!

[@j0nnyism]

Yes he is. Twain was also inspired by the rumours involved in the birth of James the seconds son. (That he wasn’t James true son)

[@RedcoatsReturn]

You documentaries are great for education all of us 😊👍👍 However, the title is misleading…as…Queen Victoria approved this inspection to find out…who was where. The suspicion of an earlier grave robber was unclear and unproven.

[@AAdams-un2ly]

WHY DO YOU PEOPLE KEEP DIGGING UP ALL THESE ROYALS???? LEAVE THEM BE>>REST IN PEACE

[@mmhthree]

Learning the history of our people..

[@ChristophersMum]

@@mmhthree Also to try to repair damage done in the past...and to make sure that the body was who they thought it was

[@Chaicrimes]

Scroll and roll, these are my ancestors. Shut it

[@AAdams-un2ly]

@@mmhthree by digging them up...when theyre in musuems and etc nah

[@AAdams-un2ly]

@@ChristophersMum THis 1 Ill go along with!

[@janicem9225]

He suffered so terribly before he died, that I can't help but feel so very sorry for him. It must have been a living hell for him. At the very end, he was so ready to leave this world and go to the better place, that it must have been such a release to him, when it was finally over. What a horrible amount of suffering he endured. 😓

[@kellyparkes9087]

He was said to of whispered to his tutor John Cheke who was attending him on his sickbed, "I am glad to die". So sad!!! 😢

[@aprilgosa5779]

@@kellyparkes9087 He got to be with the mother who loved him

[@waterbird91]

Henry his father deserved it. Henry killed and murdered all his life, even his wives, therefore, so what if his son died. Eye for an eye. And Edward looked too much like his psych father, he might have had the same attitude causing trouble and mischief like his corrupt father. No tears shed here. 😊😊 .

[@Henry-lx6cf]

He had to grow up quickly because he had so much responsibility and adult making decisions.

[@kashfiaislam9995]

Casting a black man to play to role of King Edward VI is like casting a white boy to play the role of Mowgli in The Jungle Book. 👗👠👑💍

[@raumaanking]

Imagine if Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were never killed and they got their divorce sent away imagine if the were both still alive when Henry the 8 died and still alive when Edward the 6 died and imagine if both woman were still alive during Mary’s reign 😱

[@malcolmhouston7932]

Why on earth would anyone want to imagine any of that?

[@johnpickford4222]

Raumaan Khan: Imagine if you did something more productive with your time, imagine that!!! Or imagine if one of the dead sons of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon had lived to adulthood. How different would the world be. But none of the sons did live, he ‘divorced’ her to marry Anne Boylen who continued the ‘Royal’ tradition of dead sons and live daughters. Some things never change. Imagine that!!!

[@jeannerogers7085]

Mary would likely have done away with both.

[@johnkeviljr9625]

I wish they could wash all the exterior stone at Westminster. The results would show the great complex's wonderful beauty.

[@dianetheisen8664]

Edward's dog 🐕 was shot by Thomas Seymour.

[@susanmccormick6022]

Seymour was scum.Deserved all he got.

[@johnmortimer1308]

Stabbed not shot

[@T5-635]

I cant help but wonder what made Queen Victoria seek out information on James lst. Thank you for this information, it's so intriguing. 💞🥀

[@johnpickford4222]

“I can’t help but wonder”. Gee, maybe Queen Victoria wanted to know where her predecessors were buried and commissioned an inventory which required searching out and accounting for all of them.

[@SALeppard]

He was also James VI of Scotland, reason most likely why Queen Victoria was curious as to where King James VI/I was buried is because she was very aware of and pleased to be descended from the Stewarts/Stuarts and in particularly from Queen Mary Stuart I of Scotland ie MQOS. Queen Victoria also commissioned a slab to commemorate King Robert III, the second monarch of the Stewart Dynasty in Scotland, in Paisley Abbey

[@Lornicopia]

My ancestor Sir John Cheke was considered by Edward to be like a father to him.

[@cinderanb]

How awesome that you can trace your ancestry back that far! ❤

[@Lornicopia]

@@cinderanb He is my 13th male to male grandfather. Mottistone Manor on Isle of Wight is where his grandparents lived. That grandfather was a male to male descendant of Hugh De Chekenhull sheriff of Whippingham on the Isle of Wight. Hugh was the descendant of Robert de Chekenhull who owned modern day Chyknell in Claverly Shropshire in 1209. Mottistone and Chyknell still exist. Hugh also owned Oysterbourne which is the Osbourn House estate that belonged to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. According to heraldry,the Cheke's are descended from William De Boutveleyne who owned properties in 1066 after the Norman Conquest. Heraldry descends the family from Bernard Prince of the Danes who was Rollo the Vikings brother in law. Bernard's mother was a Holstein Saxon Princess. Her father and his male ancestors trace back King to king in Roman records to 40 B.C. In another fascinating twist,Sir John Cheke's grandson Sir Thomas Cheke is the ancestor of of King Charles believe it are not. It's pretty wild to me!

[@cinderanb]

@@Lornicopia That is amazing!! Our son has been doing some research-I’m going to tell him to get with it! It’s so fascinating. I love history!

[@Lornicopia]

@@cinderanb It's pretty amazing what you find out!

[@chiasanzes9770]

😁😁😁😁

[@JuliahistoryLover]

What I’m curious about is who’s will was the legitimate one…? King Henry VIII since he was king longer? Or Edwards because he was a legitimate King?

[@ButtonsCasey]

I wondered that too and someone answered me! The difference was Henry's will was backed by parliament and parliaments blessing. Edward's wasn't. And that is why Henry's was still valid.

[@bobettepancakes]

I believe Edward VI had Antisocial personality disorder.

[@Chuck0856]

Typical a Protestant would refer to her as Bloo0dy Mary but not Bloody Henry or Bloody Edward or Bloody Elizabeth.

[@dirremoire]

True, Mary executed comparatively few protestants.

[@markherron1407]

King 👑 Edward VI Tudor IS BLACK 🖤 just like his dad Blessings and Hugs 💖💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕!

[@jeannerogers7085]

LOLOLOLOLOLOL.

[@ccasey1904]

I wonder if people realize how fortunate to live in the times we do. In the 1500s for instance, a lot of women did not survive child birth. A breach presentation was usually a death sentence. And things we can take an antibiotic for ( only discovered in early 1900s) or some other pill now. I have gout, for instance. Thank goodness there is a daily pill for this; it is mind bendingly painful to have a gout attack.

[@jeannerogers7085]

W/o modern medicine I would surely not have survived childhood - many Strep throat infections.

[@vegetariansuniteworldwide8091]

So that black triangle is just a memorial marker and not his actual grave? Where is he buried?

[@chopchung]

When you think of ALL the upheavals England was put through by Henry VIII just so he could father a legitimate male heir and keep the throne in the Tudor family then, ultimately, it was all for nothing. From Day one Prince Edward was sickly and frail and never likely to last any great length of time.Dead before he could father children of his own, the Tudor cause was as doomed as if Edward had never lived.Even if his sister Mary I had succeeded in having children they would have been from the "house" of whoever the father was, in this case the Spanish Habsburg Phillip II of Spain. After her came Elizabeth who NEVER gets criticised by history despite the fact she BETRAYED the most basic principle of monachy.....to beget an HEIR.Her decision to not marry put the nail in the Tudor coffin and forced England to give to Scotland what decades of war between those two countries had failed to achieve......the Union of TWO crowns in one person, King James VI of Scotland who now became James I of England. Centuries of war and blood between those two countries was now over BUT, as Queen of England and as a Tudor, Elizabeth had a DUTY to safeguard the English throne and her dynasty.She undoubtedly failed to do either by handing over on a plate (albeit a solid gold one)the English crown to a man who, though he had a degree of Tudor blood was a STUART through and through!!. Mind you, given that the Tudor's STOLE the crown from who i consider to be the LAST Englishman to wear it, RICHARD III, then maybe it was poetic justice that they lost their "ill-gotten gains". Tragic that so much English blood was spilled during the dynasty of these WELSH interlopers.

[@amhunter7556]

Poor little boy. I wonder what he would have been like as a monarch, when he was old enough to cast aside would-be regents and rule for himself. I'd like to think he would have been more like his mother than his father, but who knows? I don't actually think that royalty of that day and age actually appreciated that it was possible to be human AND royal.

[@pfranks75]

TB was very common during the Tutor Age. Mary and Elizabeth were grief stricken at the death of their brother. Mary could not bring herself to sign Elizabeth’s death warrant even having evidence she was aware of plots against her life.

[@elizabethmcglothlin5406]

What's with Victoria and interfering with burials?

[@johnpickford4222]

Elizabeth McGlothlin: I guess Queen Victoria was lonely and interested in necrophilia. Or maybe, not enjoying who she spent time with on earth, she wanted better companions in the afterlife. WHO KNOWS AND WHO CARES!!!

[@juliebarks3195]

So what do you think he died of? TB.

[@muttstersmart]

Pretty sure it was Tuberculosis

[@janicem9225]

It could have been...or even severe pneumonia, or a chronic respiratory illness that they had no treatment for at that time. Even lung cancer combined with a viral or bacterial respiratory infection could have caused the symptoms, along with the horrible medicines they used back then to treat illnesses. Even Lord Burleigh wrote to someone as Edward was dying, saying "God save us from doctors and their medicines" So apparently, the medicines often made patients sicker and even succomb to illness, when they might not have without it.

[@juliebarks3195]

@@janicem9225 If the rich and powerful only had that. Makes you wonder what the poor had. Perhaps death was their only pain relief☠.

[@jujubeemarina2408]

Bloody Mary

[@susanmccormick6022]

@@janicem9225 Ironic that the ACW actually helped improve medicine.And Ferdinand & Isabella shot themselves in the foot by expelling the Moors who knew a great deal about the human body & how medicines could improve a person's health.Not sure if this is true,but heard that doctors were not able to treat Cat of Aragon when pregnant because nobody could touch a royal.

[@deborahbrottmiller2948]

From the info I’ve gotten, I can’t help but feel that he would have been as tyrannical as his father became but early on in his reign. I think there would have been a lot more persecution of the Catholics.

[@stconstable]

Bloated and swollen... or wasted and thin??

[@terrencejordan1401]

His suffering was the tab he had to pick up from all the evil doing his father was doing

[@RADIUMGLASS]

You see Henry's features in the portraits.

[@Liz_678]

Very interesting and informative 🧐. Love your videos! Thanks

[@JanosKmetyko]

sehr interessant

[@sion_grace]

I think he was slowly poisoned

[@robertc2619]

Hello you had alluded to his tomb being disturbed at some point (grave robbers?)well you gave the answer yourself in the video when you said part of an altar was also found in his shallow crypt.The disturbance was probably when the altar was placed and hidden there during the English civil war ????

[@Thefoxinsights]

His ears were very interesting

[@johnpickford4222]

Nanda F.: He was actually part Vulcan which is why they were pointed and he could do mind melds. It also explains why his blood was green which was noted in his medical records. A logical explanation.

[@Thefoxinsights]

@@johnpickford4222 so he was a reptilian? Lol

[@sueamos3860]

Another very enjoyable and interesting video, thank you

[@susangore4047]

Such a tragic story

[@rodolfoayalajr.8589]

Thank you for this educational video friend. Rip Amen 🙏.

[@shellieeyre8758]

It would help if you were to read the words of the commentary instead of substituting odd approximations.

[@suechurchill2161]

Poor young King!

[@heliotropezzz333]

According to the subtitles it's repose not response, pinned not painted, gorgeously not generously, four not for, both not but etc.

[@ShelbyFarrow]

I love your voice. Will we ever get to see you on a video?

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

This is so sad and it’s a shame that he didn’t even get the chance to live long enough to prove what he would’ve been like as a king. Edward was very very conservative, and I wouldn’t have been surprised if he married, and wasn’t one to have a bunch of mistresses, because he was just that conservative about sex and staying with the one you’re married to etc… he was mature and didn’t want to get distracted by girls when he was 14 or 15 and he had visions of what he wanted to for England and I think that had he lived long enough and at least until he was 35 or 40 he would have industrialized England far faster than England was industrialized

[@faststart1000]

Nothing to see here.

[@greentombdive]

Rather too far Click bait

[@MrMomo182]

He had elfish ears.

[@irenaresman5138]

Karma.

[@ccasey1904]

And there is very credible evidence that Henry’s son was slowly poisoned to death (arsenic I believe).

[@bubb5225]

Very poor reading job, too fast, words jumbled together, flat with no modulation. No expression whatsoever in a dramatic story. And to top it all off, a noticeable lisp. I had to turn it off.