The coronation of Edward VI as King of England and Ireland took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 20 February 1547.

Using the Liber Regalis, they made some changes to the traditional order of coronation ceremonies,[6] avoiding making any doctrinal comments on the proceedings, and explained:for the tedious length of the same which should weary and be hurtsome peradventure to the King's Majesty being yet of tender age fully to endure and bide out; and also for that many points of the same were such as by the laws of the realm at this present were not allowable.

An order of service was drawn up under the authority of the Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and the executors of Henry VIII.

[9] The king's older half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth and attendant ladies and gentlewomen seem not to have been invited or present at the coronation events, possibly due to considerations of relative precedence and expense.

[14] Everdyes used scrap gold from the Secret Jewel House including a set of nine letters "I" or "J", perhaps originally made for Edward's mother Jane Seymour.

The new crown was set with pearls from Henry VIII's collars and caps, and may have included the large balas ruby of the Black Prince, a stone sourced in Myanmar.

[21] Two gentleman ushers, John Norris and William Raynesford, dressed in vintage costume as the Dukes of Normandy (or Gascony) and Guyenne, represented Edward's claim to these territories.

Urson was brought up by a bear and became a wild man or wodewose, while Valentine was found in a forest by Pepin the Hunchback and raised as a courtier.

[30] At St Paul's, an acrobat, "a man from the nation of Aragon",[31] slid down a cable or tightrope from the steeple battlements "so swiftly as he had been a bird",[32] or "an arrow out of a bow".

[39] Edward showed himself at the four corners of the scaffold and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury said the words of "recognition", inviting the congregation to assent to the coronation by their "duties of allegiance".

[41] The coronation oath had been amended to reflect the Reformation; mention of the privileges of the clergy were omitted and a veiled reference to the Parliament of England was introduced, that new laws would be made "by the consent of your people".

[42] In his sermon, Cranmer set out a Protestant agenda by likening Edward to the Biblical Josiah, who had destroyed the pagan idols in Jerusalem, and said the new king would see "the tyranny of the Bishops of Rome banished from your subjects and images removed".

[45] A general pardon for prisoners was issued, excepting the Duke of Norfolk, Edward, Lord Courtenay, son of the Marquess of Exeter, Master Fortescue or Foskew, Cardinal Pole, and Doctor Pates.

[53] The competitors included Thomas Seymour, Anthony Kingston, Peter Carew, Francis Knollys, and Edward Shelley.

[59][60] In the novel Edward is lost and helped by Miles Hendon to reach the abbey before the lookalike Tom Canty is crowned.

[62] Chronicle accounts of the reign of Mary I mention an imposter, William Featherstone, the son of a miller and a servant of Peter Meutas, who claimed to be Edward VI in 1555.