Edward VI of England campaign ever launched by the English against the Scots. The war, which continued into Edward's reign, has become known as "The Rough Wooing". The nine-year-old Edward wrote to his father and stepmother on 10 January 1547 from Hertford thanking them for his new year's gift of their portraits from life. By 28 January 1547, Henry VIII was dead. Those close to the throne, led by Edward Seymour and William Paget, agreed to delay the announcement of the king's death until arrangements had been made for a smooth succession. Seymour and Sir Anthony Browne, the Master of the Horse, rode to
Tunnelling the English Channel plays the leader of the Salvation Army parade. King Edward was played by a wash-house attendant who closely resembled the monarch, reprising a role he had played five years before in Méliès's film "The Coronation of Edward VII". Special effects used in the film include stage machinery, pyrotechnics, substitution splices, superimpositions, and dissolves. "Tunneling the English Channel" was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 936–950 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a "fantaisie burlesque à grand spectacle en 30 tableaux". For many of his longer films, Georges Méliès prepared a "boniment", a spoken commentary explaining