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{{Infobox royalty|succession={{hlist |[[United_Kingdom#List_of_leaders|King of Great Britain]] & [[Ireland]]}}|spouse=Marie Louise of Sweden (1827-1908) (m. 1847)|burial_date=5 January 1879|religion=Anglicanism|house=[[House of Schomberg|Schomberg]]|mother=Charlotte Sophia of Pomerania|father=[[Ernest I]]|issue-pipe=(details)|issue-link=#Family|issue={{hlist |[[Prince Charles of Wales]]}}|coronation=23 September 1873|
|death_place=Palace of Whitehall, London, [[Britain]]|death_date=4 August 1873|birth_place=Palace of Whitehall, London, [[Britain]]|birth_date=24 April 1824|reign2={{nowrap|1873 – 1878}}|name=Ernest I|reign={{nowrap|4 August 1873 - 28 December 1878}}|image_size=300px|burial_place=St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle|caption=Portrait painted in 1875 by Oscar Glyn-Davis|successor=[[Alexander I & IV]]|predecessor=[[Ernest I]]}}
Edward VII (Edward Augustus; 1824-1878), was the King of the [[United Kingdom]] from 1873 until his assassination in 1874. The King was most notable for his artistic and literary prowess, with him publishing several novels under the pseudonym “Leonard E.A. Stewart”. He would be the first British or English monarch to be murdered since Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field when he was assassinated by Communard sympathizers. He was succeeded by his younger brother, [[Alexander I & IV]].
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In 1873 he would become king of the United Kingdom after his father’s fatal stroke, taking the regal name Edward VII. His estranged wife would attend his connotation, but afterward, they would never see each other again as she spend most of her time in Scotland. As King, Edward’s reign would prove to be one marked by a surprising degree of energy and dynamism from the new monarch. Despite the many controversies surrounding his relationships, he was fairly popular and expressed much more liberal views than his father, with him openly supporting calls for the expansion of suffrage and improved workers' rights. A distinguished writer and musical amateur himself, King Edward proved a generous friend of learning and did much to encourage the development of education throughout his dominions. He took an interest in the arts and philosophy, and he would personally fund the establishment of several new universities in both Britain and Ireland. An avid painter himself, he took part in art competitions facilitating the development of the arts and took a keen interest in the intellectual growth of his Kingdom by visiting several educational institutes as well. He personally wrote over 9 plays and over 21 poems and 28 short stories. Though his plays and poems are noted upon, his literary skills shined in his stories - with the genre of horror in which he excelled. His books The Haunting of Camelot and The Hound of the Vasas are considered to be the most stellar examples of the horror genre in the 19th century by literary historians.
However all of this would be all for naught as on March 5, King Edward would be assassinated by members of the Communard organization known as the “People’s Indomitable Will”. They had been infuriated by the fact that the British helped overthrow the radical
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