TIL that in 1487 a ten-year-old boy, Lambert Simnel, was crowned β€œKing Edward VI” in Dublin by Yorkist rebels. Henry VII defeated them but spared the child, making him a kitchen spit-boy and later a royal falconer. Simnel lived quietly into old age.

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