myOtaku.com: Nevi

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Vitals

Birthday
• 1991-05-08
Gender
• Female
Location
• Turn Left At Greenland
Member Since
• 2004-01-11
Occupation
• Webmistress.
Real Name
• Elizabeth

Personal

Achievements
• Have over 60 LP records.
Anime Fan Since
• Since I was a child, I suppose.
Favorite Anime
• Currently? Anime: Death Note -- Manga: Nana
Goals
• To get into Oxford University! (I dream big!)
Hobbies
• Listening to music, reading, writing, photoshop, anime,
Talents
• Photoshop, HTML, knowing the name of any Beatle song by the opening line.

myOtaku.com: Nevi

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Mm... Yes.
Well yesterday Mr. Kyser came to visit and we all had a good time.
Before he got here we went to the library and I got a TON of books. I will list them, as to give you a peak into my favorite interests.
"The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England" Edited by Antonia Fraser
"Solzhenitsyn: A Pictoral Autobiography" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"King Edward VIII: A biography" by Philip Ziegler
"The Life and Death of Lenin" by Robert Payne
"Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq" bt Thura Al-Windawi
"Elizabeth the Great" by Elizabeth Jenkins
"The Prince and the Pauper" by Mark Twain

With my choice of books someone might think I'm trying to overthrow the government! (Ha, ha!)
I finished reading Thura's Diary all in one day and I'm reading bits and pieces of biographies to get get enough knowledge so as borrowing them wont seem useless. And if I get the time I hope to finish them. I'm reading "the Prince and the Pauper" now and am half way finished. Parts of it make my heart ache and tears well up in my eyes to see the little prince hurt so.
I wrote a bit on Edward VI (who is the prince in the prince and the pauper) when my Uncle Sonny died, but I'd like to expel on him a bit more. He's always been my favorite king.
It was such a sad fate that befell Edward, he became king when he was only nine. Edward was always a sickly child and living a very sheltered life he didn't have many friends. But one of his only friends was the Lady Jane Grey who was born a few weeks before Edward. From childhood she was raised to be interested in the arts, sciences and she was to be fluent in Greek, Latin and French. Why go to all this trouble for one young girl? From childhood Jane was promised to be married to the Prince Edward. Neither party minded marring the other because they were close friends and loved each other dearly. She was raised to have a personality that would be suitable to the likings of the bookish prince.
When Edward's father died in 1547 Edward was declared King of England. Because he was so young he earned the nickname, "The Boy King."
During Edward's reign he did much for the Protestant party, creating the English Prayer Book and all of England. But still, though he hated it he was somewhat controlled by his uncles. But they were both charged with treason and put to death. Towards the end of his rule, when he was only in his teens, Edward became very sick. The Duke of Northumberland, who was now the Lord Admiral and one of the driving forces behind the young king changed the plan of Edwards marriage to Jane Grey and had Jane marry his son, the spoiled Gilford Dudly. Next Northumberland persuaded the king write a will passing the crown to his beloved cousin. This will stated that Edward's sisters were not the rightful heirs, putting Jane who was forth in line at the front. Soon after the signing of the will Edward died. It has been speculated that the poor king was poisoned to "mercifully" quicken his death so as the illness would not plague into misery.
Jane was crowned queen and immediately prompted to make Gilford king and joint ruler. But Jane would never give Gilford the satisfaction of ruling and would never force such a man upon England.
Nine days after Jane's accession to the thrown she was beheaded along with her father, Northumberland and Gilford. Edward wasn't buried until days and days after his death, he now lies in Westminister Abbey, without an effigy near his grandfather King Henry VII. And today millions of people walk over his grave every year without a second thought whilst they try to see "better" monarchs such as Edward's sister Elizabeth I. And most people never know what a truly remarkable young man he was and what a sad and joyous life he lived.
...*looks up* Wow. I wrote a lot. Well I had to rant a little about that, and although "the Prince and the Pauper" is such a charming tale I'm glad it isn't true. More hardships on the little prince would be a such a tragedy.
-Nevi
P.S: (Why don't I become a history teacher and get it over with?)
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Edward VI and Lady Jane Grey
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