TUDOR-VICTORIAN

the other is from the victorina era.//** THE TUDORS //**
 * //In the months before christmas, I've been working on two newsarticles - one is from the tudor time,
 * // A terrible loss for the royal family   //**

- **The new king has after a long fight against tuberculosis, now lost the war against the sickness and died yesterday afternoon.The future king was only 15 years old when he past away. – The family must be cursed, the spokesman for the** ** Royal family said. ** Yesterday at 5;40 pm, Edward VI took his last breath and past away with his family gathered around him to see him wandering to a better place. Tod Spencer, the spokesman for the royal family said that he was deeply sorry for the loss of the future king, and he is shaken over the situation in the royal family. The family must be cursed, deaths and divorces are ‘’daily’’ things, and this sudden death tops it all, he said yesterday. In the pronunciation of Edward’s death, Spencer said that Edward would be buried along with his parents, Henry and Jane Seymour. The funeral day isn’t set yet, the royal family says that they must let it ‘’sink in’’ before they make a decision.

HAPPY FUTURE AS A KING Born October 12th 1537, King Edward VI was the first son of King Henry VIII and was therefore the person who would inherit the throne after him. Of course this caused great happiness, because now the king had a successor and more importantly; it was a boy. Until then King Edward had entered two partnerships with two different women and ‘’unfortunately’’ conceived two children, both girls. But when he in the end married his third woman, Jane Seymour, they finally succeeded making a boy. Despite the happiness with the childbirth, this (as we all know) had a dark side; Queen Jane soon fell ill and died October 24th due to childbed fever. Even though Edwards’s mother and father died quiet early, he had a pretty happy life with good education and also a future as a king. But t his seeming happy life unfortunately ended very sad yesterday. As we all know, Edward has stayed in bed because of illness and yesterday he lost the fight against the sickness. From getting bouts of measles and smallpox in April last year, his health state of affair has dramatically declined. When the royal family last week pronounced that Edward had gotten consumption (tuberculosis), many saw the hard facts in their eyes and realized what was going to happen.

The question is now; who will be Edwards successor? Many say that Lady Jane is going to be the next queen, but that rumour is not confirmed.

//Terrible conditions for the children in the factories// **
 * THE VICTORIANS **
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**Thousands of children are now suffering terrible conditions in the factories. Their fingers, legs and arms have been cut off while working. ‘’Something needs to be done” Lord Shaftesbury pronounced yesterday.**

Since the industrial revolution started in this century, the cities have grown enormously.This urbanization is mostly because of one thing; the factories. The factories are getting bigger and bigger and produce more and more, so more manpower are provided. Due to the high production charges, the directors in the factories are getting forced to employ younger and younger employees’, in order to earn more money.

These employees are very young, some of them haven’t had their 6.th birthday yet and many are under the age of 16. Mark Spitzer, a 10 year old worker at the Mill in east London, explains the situation: “We start very early in the morning, around 5 o’ clock and we work all the day to the evening and sometimes to the middle of the night. Due to the required production rate every day, we have to work very hard and we are often treated badly by our supervisors”. Mark further explains that health and medical risks are very high. ‘’Haste makes waste’’, and if you get injured, you get your ''walking papers’’ and replaced by a new employer. This is much cheaper for the factory’s owner because buying insurances for the workers are much more expensive than replacing them. The wages are not much to talk about either, a couple of pennies are usual for an average worker in the factories. “Something needs to be done”, Lord Shaftesbury pronounced in a press release yesterday. The Chairman of the ragged Schools Union said that the working conditions for the children in the factories are terrible. He demanded that all children under the age of 10 should be pulled out immediately from the factories. Shaftesbury also fights for other children because the children in the factories aren’t the only one who is suffering in this industrial revolution, also kids in the coal mines and the street children are having a terrible time. The Conservative Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Sir Robert Peel has also e xpressed his thoughts about this clearly: He wants to solve this problem by forbidding children-labour in the factories. Both these important persons are negative to young labour power in the factories, and they both work for improving the conditions for them.

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