Edward the son of Henry VIII became king of England and Ireland in 1547, but who was "crowned" as "Edward VI" sixty years earlier in Dublin?

A young Oxford priest, Richard Symonds, seeing in the handsome boy some alleged resemblance to Edward IV, determined to exploit him. In 1486, the rumor that the "princes in the Tower," Edward's children, were still alive, suggested that Simnel might be passed off as one of them. A year later, the false report of the death in the Tower of another young Yorkist, Edward, earl of Warwick, changed the impersonation. Symonds took his charge to Ireland where the Yorkist interest was strong and where Simnel was crowned at Dublin as King Edward VI. Despite Henry VII's efforts (which included parading the real earl through the streets of London), the conspiracy spread.