Edward VI became king at the age of nine upon the death of his father, Henry VIII, and a Regency was created. Although he was intellectually precocious (fluent in Greek and Latin, he kept a full journal of his reign), he was not, however, physically robust. On his death from tuberculosis in 1553, Lady Jane Grey briefly assumed the throne. What might have been had the intelligent boy king, Edward VI, survived?
Concluding David Starkey's compelling look at the Tudor siblings tied by affection but torn apart by religion and power. This episode examines the dramatic events that shaped the life of Bloody Mary. Mary I was the first Queen Regnant (that is, a queen reigning in her own right rather than a queen through marriage to a king). Courageous and stubborn, her character was moulded by her early years.
