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Life in the Time of Plague

The long-awaited christening of Prince Edward was tempered by the plague.

Simon Lambe | Published in History Today Volume 70 Issue 7 July 2020

Edward VI as a child, by Hans Holbein the Younger, c.1538 © Bridgeman Images.

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