Who were the children of Henry Eighth?

Some of whom followed a different faith,

There was Edward the Sixth and Lady Jane Grey,

Though as a queen she lasted for only 9 days,

Before Mary deposed her and cut off her head,

And became “Bloody Mary”, the Protestants’ dread!

That was after Edward inherited when just a lad still,

But at only sixteen he became mortally ill.

Mary succeeded and killed most of her foes,

How Elizabeth survived, no one really knows!

Elizabeth 1 was a truly great queen,

Her like as linguist and scholar had rarely been seen.

Her reign is now known as the Golden Age,

With nautical conquests at every stage.

She died at Richmond in 1603,

The last of the Tudor monarchy.

She reigned for 40 odd years, died in her 70th year,

And her like as a monarch won’t reappear.