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My Lady Jane: Was King Edward VI poisoned in real life?

While My Lady Jane is alternate history, there are some elements of the story that are based on real life. What about the poisoning of King Edward VI. Did someone really attempt to kill the ...
Publishers Weekly

Edward VI: The Lost King of England

Skidmore, a Ph.D. candidate in Tudor history and adviser to the British shadow secretary for education, provides a revealing glimpse into the tumultuous six-year reign of Edward VI, who ascended to ...
Birmingham Mail

King Edward VI headteacher leaves job at school where 'striking teachers' names sent to parents'

A headteacher has left her role at a Birmingham academy trust which reportedly sent the names of striking teachers to parents in a potential data protection breach. An investigation was launched at ...
Los Angeles Times

King Edward VI’s Death Linked to Measles, TB

A bout of measles apparently activated a smoldering case of tuberculosis and led to the death in 1553 of King Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, at the age of 15, today’s New England Journal of Medicine ...
Birmingham Mail

King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys

We've analysed all the local government data to bring you the rundown on your local secondary schools. Here King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, Grove Lane, Handsworth, Birmingham, B21 ...
Newsweek

Is ‘Becoming Elizabeth’ Based on Historical Fact? ‘I Was So Amazed’

Becoming Elizabeth is the new historical drama on Starz, which fans of T he Crown, The Spanish Princess and Versailles will not want to miss it. The eight-part series airs every Sunday on Starz and ...
BBC

School with vaulted hall granted rare listed status

A building described as one of Birmingham's "best kept secrets" has been granted a rare Grade II* listing. King Edward VI Handsworth School for Girls has been given the legal protection awarded to ...
BBC

King Edward VI head teacher leaves role amid data breach

A head teacher of a leading grammar school has quit amid an ongoing probe into an alleged data protection breach. Charlotte Jordan was appointed headmistress of Birmingham's King Edward VI Five Ways ...
The Mirror

Grammar school headteacher leaves after parents sent list of teachers going on strike

The headteacher of one of Britain's top-performing grammar schools has left her job after parents were sent a list of teachers going on strike. Charlotte Jordan, 45, left her role at King Edward VI ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Royal Scandal That Rocked Elizabeth I’s Teenage Years

A new Starz series, “Becoming Elizabeth,” dramatizes the future queen’s controversial relationship with her much-older stepfather, Thomas Seymour Based on a True Story Meilan Solly - Senior Associate ...
Daily Mail

How Prince William and Harry's feud echoes the bad blood between George VI and his disgraced older brother Edward VIII (with their wives despising each other too!)

The bitterness between Prince William and Prince Harry may be threatening to tear the Royal family apart, but it is nothing new. From the tension between William the Conqueror's sons in the 11th ...