April 2 - Edward VI catches smallpox and measles
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- Edward VI's Struggle with Measles and Smallpox: A Royal Brush with Illness
Explore the harrowing account of 14-year-old King Edward VI's battle with measles and smallpox on this day in Tudor history, April 2nd, 1552.
Uncover the symptoms and treatments of these dreaded diseases as I delve into the medical practices of the Tudor era. Witness Edward's swift recovery through his own journal entries and the heartfelt letters exchanged with his sister, Princess Elizabeth.
Despite his fortunate escape from the perils of illness, discover how this brush with disease may have ultimately influenced Edward's health and contributed to his untimely demise.
Join me as I unravel the mysteries surrounding Tudor medicine and the delicate balance between life and death in the royal court. #TudorHistory #EdwardVI #Measles #Smallpox 💉👑
Book recommendations: "Edward VI" by Chris Skidmore; "Pustules, Pestilence and Pain: Tudor Treatments and Ailments of Henry VIII" by Seamus O'Caellaigh.
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My 13th Great Grandmother was the nurse to Prince Edward and a servant to 4 Tudor Monarchs...Sibell Penn. I absolutely love your books and videos.
So today I decided (tried, actually) to watch your video a little early while I was still babysitting my 4 year old nephew. Oddly, he didn't protest. Instead, he placed his enormous cheeks in his hands and watched along with me.
His first observation was, "She has a lot of books!", to which I replied, "Yes, she does! And she wrote some of them!"
Second observation was, "What are all those doll ladies?" So then I had to explain to him what a queen is. And what a king is.
Which served as a good segue for the topic of the day, "Claire is teaching me about a king who got very sick." That led to some more hand-on-cheek concentration and then his final observation:
"I like her."
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Cara G two 👍... she’s marvelous, yes???
@@jmeyer3rn Positively! I never miss an upload!
What a charming story about a charming child! I'll bet he & Edward would have gotten along well, when both were about the same age. It is the type of thing the young prince used to do. Thanks for sharing this!
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Aw, you just made my day! Bless him!
@@jmeyer3rn Thank you!
What a trial - measles and smallpox! What a lethal combo. Enjoyed Elizabeth's letter to her brother, the youthful attitude of "shaking it off!" made me smile. So few of us know about a suppressed immune system and the consequences of catching yet more diseases. Thank you, Miss (it's a southern thing) Claire. Very informative, as always.
Back in the 50's, when I was born, there were no vaccines for measles or most diseases. I contracted measles and chicken pox. I remember it, and have 1 scar from the the chicken pox.Slight fever and red little dots all over me. My mother would dress me in pretty clothes, because I remember looking in the mirror crying about how ugly I looked. Other relatives would bring their children over in hopes they would catch it and get it over with. And they did! All seems very strange now. Haven't thought about any of that, until watching your videos. I just cannot wait every day to hear them!
Kathy Hall, I remember going to measles parties!
Interesting theory on atypical cystic fibrosis. I have not heard of that before. However, it is interesting that other than King Henry VIII, the males of that line and time should die so young and due to similar illnesses is very interesting. Please keep these interesting tidbits coming. Also so happy that your voice sounds so much better!
Such misery for one so young. Rest in peace King Edward.
So many dead babies in Henry's wake ....so...very interesting to consider if there was something like cystic fibrosis going on......interesting.
Rather McLeod's.
Elizabeth: Wow now when you get sick again you'll be totally fine
Edward: Haha bet
Just in case anyone is wondering, the Saint Austin to whom Elizabeth refers in her letter, is better known as Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (in modern-day Algeria, Africa). He was highly-regarded by the early Protestant reformers, due to his teachings on salvation. 🌍
How miserable just thinking about when I got chicken pox got well then the hard measles. At times I didn't know which way was up or down because of fever.
Edward seemed to be such a responsible boy
Thank you. Great video. I love that Edward VI kept such a detailed journal. You sound better today!
Hi Claire. How interesting about Arthur, Henry Fitzroy, & Edward. I don't know much about cystic fibrosis. It's strange that no women in his family (that we know of) had it. Or did they? How lucky that we have vaccines for many illnesses today. I don't understand why people are against them.
Poor little lad. Britain's last Smallpox ward was disbanded in the LATE 1960s!
My mum was in college in the sixties, where two Welsh girls didn't want to go home before they had been vaccinated.
The hell
Hi Claire! Ty for your daily Tudor love! Ss teacher and history buff, here in US🤓
I totally love your Elizabeth shirt!!!
All the anti vaxxers need to listen to that description.
Agreed!!
Wendy Hood true!!
BUT TODAY THEY ADD LETHAL CHEMICALS TO THE VACCINE.
@@clare5one I worked with a lady who was born in the 1950's who was not immunized. She was in a wheelchair from polio - completely preventable. I have no tolerance for *Tin Foil Hat Anti Vaccers* It's for personal AND public health.
@@clare5one can't be too lethal. My 3 kids have made it to adulthood along with millions of other children of sane people who do the responsible thing and vaccinate their kids
Poor Edward he must have really suffered. Such a short life and a horrible death too
Fear maiden thank your for Sharing my personal writing. But I do not mind because I want people to know who I am
🇭🇲🦘 (viewed 28/03/2021) .. Edward VI, very fortunate to have survived, yet he later died so young. Wonderful to have letters (like Elizabeth's) to read from. Thank you Claire 👑👍
Thank you for my learn- something -everyday resolve. I had taken some post grad studies after my retirement from teaching. As a senior citizen living in Montana , U,S. I am starved for the resources and academic climate that was available to me at the Folger in Washington, D.C. I am studying the War of the Roses period also but very complex.
Thank you Claire! Fabulous as always
Another informative video from you Claire. It gives greater insight as to the possible reason of his subsequent death at a still very young age. As a child I came down with mumps before the MMR vaccine became available. I can tell you it was very unpleasant and Edward was lucky to have survived the more serious (and simultaneous) measles and smallpox illnesses.
A lucky young man to have two serious illnesses at the same time and survive.
I love Elizabeth's letter to Edward.
Ps Claire I love your Anne Boleyn cushion. 🙂
Thank you for another fabulous video. Love the "Elizabethan" t-shirt.
Elizabeth I wrote the BEST letters! So gracious and wonderfully written. She was such a great politician as well. Love her!
Just loaded the book on my kindke. It ought to be an interesting read! Pustules, Pestilence and Pain!
Hi Claire. Never would I have thought I might have found you on TH-cam. Your videos are so helpful in understanding the of British royalty. Thank you so much!!
Wow, so much interesting history of diseases here. I remember all my vaccinations. The days before oral polio vaccine too. I was never so happy as when our Dr. Started the oral vaccine. No painful muscles, no low grade fever. One less set of reactions to go through. Better with than without though.😁💙
I was inoculated against smallpox in 1950. I still have the mark on my leg 68 years later!
hazeluzzell Me too!
Another great one today. I love stories that show these people to be human beings. Edward's health is such an interesting topic. Any suppression of the immune system at that time could be a death sentence, and probably was for poor Edward. I have heard some terrifying stories about what happened to him just before he died, such as he lost all his hair, with his face swelling up to twice it's size before turning purple. I wonder if anyone else has ever heard these things?
Sounds like he and Elizabeth had a good relationship. It is a shame that he was able to overcome two serious illness, only to die so young.
Really interesting video, thank you! Poor Edward VI, such a curious young man. A sad little life. Only inkling of him being young was hearing about his one little friend. Forgetting his name now but I think it sounded Irish?
Love your stuff always have. Could you possibly talk about Katherine Howard.
jess griffiths I agree! And explore her family relations and the reasons for her downfall
I believe the poor, unsupervised child was a victim of extensive sexual abuse. This may have led to her lack of prudence in the conduct of her adult sexual behaviour, plus a great lack of feelings of self-esteem. 👸
Would love a video about Catherine Howard!
See th-cam.com/video/uF5spO8dLX0/w-d-xo.html, th-cam.com/video/4nGL47QKe4k/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/jxxcTAxn0_k/w-d-xo.html for some videos on Catherine.
H. Calvert, exactly. Poor Katherine Howard never a chance to learn about and develop healthy relationships with men. From a young age she was preyed upon by older men; her music teacher, Francis Dereham and then the king. Even the affair with Culpepper which proved to be her downfall was exploitive on his part at least.
Another fascinating video!! Thank you! Already looking forward to more tomorrow!
Another great episode!! I enjoy them so much.
Thank you for your channel and videos, they are delightfully educational !
I really enjoy your videos. They appear in the afternoon on the day before and I cannot make myself wait til the next day.
Fascinating. I never knew Edward VI had smallpox. Thanks so much.
They still use sulfur based cream on boils. Silverdine, sulfidine, ect.
Keep up the good work!
I am happy that you sound better, but I do hope you heal from your cold completely very soon! I also love Elizabeth's letters; they are so elegant! If only people still wrote that way!
Hi Claire - thanks so much for another great video. I have a request. I love fashion & would be interested in a video focusing on the fashion styles of the time (materials, the dressing process, colors and what they meant etc.). Looking forward to your wonderful videos!
Maybe she could address the "Anne Boleyn wears purple" from the showtime series. Also her trying Tudor dress up games.
Thanks for reading the letter.
Loved hearing Elizabeth's letter 😍
Thank you.
Poor little Edward measles is nasty enough without small pox, the whole court must have quaked in fear, the theory of nonclassic cystic fibrosis is interesting, cystic fibrosis is a genetic lung condition where mucus builds up in the lungs and creates all sorts of problems, nonclassic is a mutation, it certainly is a coincidence that both Edwards uncle Arthur and half brother Fitzroy died of a similar illness, the sufferer cannot put on weight and appears jaundiced, they grow languid and weak till they die, they suffer the most terrible racking cough and possibly bring up blood, Edwards symptoms were particurlaly nasty, he was covered in ulcers all over his body and brought up black fluid towards the end, the black fluid sounds like a tumour, if he had nonclassic cystic fibrosis life expectancy was not good in Tudor times, I think because Edward had smallpox and measles then died later of a horrible illness, arose the myth that he was of a sickly disposition yet he was not, he had been a healthy baby when we consider his poor mother had a traumatic time in labour and his portrait by Holbein shows a rosy cheeked bonny little boy, Elizabeths letter is enchanting and she shows a real sisterly concern for her younger brother whom by all accounts, she was most fond of, she must have longed to visit him but of course she would not be allowed to until he was fully recovered, it's very sad that the smallpox he managed to recover from possibly was the cause for his pitiful death later on.
Christine Willmott, portrait painters in Tudor times wouldn't have painted unfavourable images of the monarchs on pain of death. The rosy cheeked Edward in the portrait could well have been the very opposite of how he looked. Elizabeth 1 always appears as a healthy woman with glowing skin in her portraits when in actual fact her skin was badly pockmarked from smallpox and most of the famous red hair was absent.
Thanks for another "in this day..." to spark my curiosity. Since cystic fibrosis is an autosomal recessive disease these men would have had to inherit a faulty gene from both mother and father. Off to check the pedigrees of these characters and speculate. I see Kyra Kramer's "Edward VI" is in Amazon.
Edward's immune system was not very good. Elizabeth writing to Edward suggested they were close? To, "shake it off", suggests that it was a youthful opinion. When Elizabeth had smallpox she knew how her brother must have felt.
Smallpox and measles? At the same time?? Poor baby 😔
I wonder if the cystic fybrosis theory could give insight as to why only 3 of Henry's children (from 3 wives!) passed infancy?
Also, I just downloaded your This Day In Tudor History book to my Amazon Kindle app, so I'm off to get stuck into it!!
I look forward to your uploads! Have you read "Henry VIII by Kathy Elgin"? If so, may I ask your opinion of this work?
I'm afraid I haven't. Is it good?
Wow and to think that I'm here whining about my cold. Sounds quite awful.
Cystic fibrosis very interesting Claire
Claire, do you think Edward VI would have been a good king if he had ruled longer? Thank you!
Elizabeth Frantes He was prepared. If smart and ruthless a good king make, I think he would have been a standout. I believe he had what it takes for removing heads on a whim. In his short life, he showed lots of moxie.
@@Corbyloc thank you! :)
@Elizabeth Frantes thank you! :)
Yes, I do, and it's so sad that he never reached his majority. He seems to have been a strong character and an intelligent boy.
@@anneboleynfiles Thank you!
Measles is not to be taken lightly. I was vaccinated but got the measles in Grade 4 and missed the Valentine party . I remember being very sick, my room darkened and hurting all over my body as well as itching all over. My sight had been perfect up until then, but after I recovered my sight was affected, and I needed glasses. A minor result, but I wonder if the slow subsequent loss of hearing starting in my early thirties , not diagnosed until my 60s was another result. The specialist still does not know why I have lost 40% of my hearing. It is frighting to know these are coming back and killing people when we were told , they were eradicated. Somebody lied.
Measles and smallpox are not the same thing, but as I understand them, their symptoms are rather similar. So how would someone in the 16th century have been diagnosed as having both diseases, as opposed to one or the other?
I’ve never seen anyone who was ill with smallpox. It had been eradicated from the world by about 1975. So I’ve only read about that disease. I had measles as a child, and so did many other children I knew. Measles was common then, but it is now relatively rare, thanks to vaccinations.
The theory advanced of non-classic cystic fibrosis is indeed a very interesting one... The fact that three close 'family members' may have suffered from this is all the more important as it would tend to indicate some sort of genetic link... - perhaps a non-dominant gene... whereby, certain other 'influencing genes' need to be present for it to express itself considering it was not more 'rampant' in family bloodlines. I am a direct descendant of MANY noble and royal lines (and related to the Tudor Dynasty as well in more ways than one... ) and in a branch of one of my cousins, cystic fibrosis does crop up... This could become quite an interesting 'study' for geneticists if they obtained a sample from the remains of Edward VI and a blood sample from my relative who are afflicted by this. . . Who knows what this could do to help science today. . .
CF is autosomal recessive. It is just from two copies of one gene the person receives, one from their mother and one from their father. Many times recessive genes remain “hidden” in a family, as having only one copy makes the person a carrier, not a sufferer. With so many royals in history being relatives, they were more likely than non-relatives to procreate someone who also had the family’s genetic mutation. Once they had a child, it was a 25% chance the child actually develops the disease by inheriting the two copies. 50% would be carriers themselves, and 25% would not inherit one defective gene.
Hm....non-classic cystic fibrosis... that’s an interesting theory. Fscinating!
1 Other question I had about Edward was whether or not he had been betrothed to any princesses as his father and others, including his sisters, were with various royals around the European continent?
Lastly, and unrelated to Edward specifically, I also wondered if henry’s wives had difficulty either conceiving or giving birth to healthy children because of his syphilis infection.I jdidn’t know if that infection could have, first of all, infected any his wives, but also somehow had a negative impact on their ability to conceive or carry a child to term, or otherwise have a healthy baby. I believe end stage syphilis was at least one of the causes of his death, so maybe it didn’t play a role in his relationships as a younger man, but the disease slowly progresses over several years so it’s possible A wife or mistress could’ve gotten pregnant at a time when he had syphilis.
Was he ever told of this diagnosis? Did he know that it was sexually transmitted? Would his last 2 wives known of it, Either by rumor or obvious physical symptoms?Did they have any treatment for it? How did they deal with sexually communicable diseases back then? I mean, besides the noose lol.
Did Anne Boleyn were ceruse
Why did Elizabeth and Henry sogn their name and an R?
Regent for king and Regina for queen. = R
@@mlboone3028 thank you
I thought Rex was the Latin for king?
Rex = Latin for king, Regina = Latin for queen.
They were signing their titles 😊
It's still on British coins today. Queen Elizabeth II is a Regina. 👑
Hi Clair, a couple of questions.... Was Edward close to both his half sisters? and is there any information on Mary and Elizabeth's response to news that he was dying or did they not know until he had already died?
I've read that he & Elizabeth were close, as they were only four years apart in age & both of the new faith. Also, both were of scholarly & serious temperament, very bright, & artistically gifted, as were all the Tudors. Mary was 17 already when Elizabeth was born, & 21 when Edward came along. And she had vastly different religious views. Little hopes there for unity. But since both the preceding queens were dead by the time his parents were married & since Jane was regarded as being of irreproachable character, there was no question either of Edward perhaps not being Henry's son or that he was not the legitimate heir. He might be the youngest, but he was the only male. Both Mary & Elizabeth were completely contented with that. And as Jane Seymour had been kind to both girls, they had every reason to honour the memory of his mother. 🤴 👑 👸👸
They were close but he did become very frustrated and angry with Mary regarding her refusal to abide by his laws (regarding her celebration of the mass). I think they were aware of his ill health but news of his death was kept quiet for a bit so that Jane could be established on the throne.
Or he could have been poisoned
Did Edward ever have an extended period (years) of relatively good health in his short life? I understood him to be a sickly/frail child and teen and never very well tho I’m, not sure of it.
Well, at least Dear Old Dad lived his last (hideous, painful, smelly) years and died in the satisfaction of (falsely) believing he had through great efforts, multiple pregnancies, a few “legitimate”, many not, several miscarriages and infant deaths, and other collateral damage (wife’s head) ha had Successfully met his life’s primary goal, to have a male heir lol. Very Darwinian.
He actually had a very good constitution until 1552 and wasn't a sickly child at all. He did have a fever, probably malaria, when he was little, but he was generally strong and healthy.
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