Legal Definition of distress. 1  1 : seizure and detention of the goods of another as pledge or to obtain satisfaction of a claim by the sale of the goods seized; specifically : seizure by a landlord of a tenant's property to obtain satisfaction of arrearages in rent Editor's note: Distress is regulated by statute where available.
Edward VI (12 October 1537 â 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch raised as a Protestant.
During the Second World war, a King was on the British throne. The Royal Family with Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE Day.World War Two in Europe began on 3rd September 1939,hen war broke out in 3rd September 1939 King George VI was three years into his reign. He became King unexpectedly following the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, in 1936. (When King George V died in January 1936, his eldest son Edward became King.