When was edward born

His duties as Chancellor include presiding over meetings of the University Court, conferring degrees at graduation and generally representing the University. It is now the Earl, rather than his father, who travels for associated events and to present Gold Awards. To celebrate his 55th birthday on 10 March , the Queen granted her youngest son the Earldom of Forfar in Scotland. This means that whenever Edward and Sophie travel north of the border , they are addressed as the Earl and Countess of Forfar.

In July , the couple made their official visit to Forfar since being bestowed with the honour. Although Prince Edward and his family have spent most of the pandemic at their home, Bagshot Park in Surrey, royal fans were treated to a rare joint engagement by the group when the easing of lockdown restrictions allowed last summer.

Getty Images. Topics Royals. British Broadcasting Corporation Home. He was king for less than a year. Edward was born on 23 June in Richmond, Surrey, the eldest child of the duke of York.

He was always known in his family as David, one of many middle names. Throughout the s, Edward undertook extensive foreign tours particularly in the empire, representing his father. These tours, together with Edward's visits to areas of high unemployment and deprivation in Britain during the economic depression of the early s, made Edward very popular.

Edward had affairs with a number of married women in the s, but then met and fell in love with Wallis Simpson, the wife of an American businessman. In January , George V died and Edward became king. In October, Wallis Simpson was granted a divorce from her husband, and it became clear that the new king wished to marry her, against the advice of many of his advisors who did not believe that Edward, as head of the Church of England, should marry a divorced woman.

James catches her scent and decides to hunt Bella for sport, as tracking was his obsession. After some thoughts from Bella, Alice, and Emmett, Edward allows them to try to use Bella's plan: Bella convinces Charlie that she is leaving town, and Alice and Jasper take her to hide in Phoenix.

Edward tries to lead James away, but loses his trail. He then flies to Phoenix to see Bella and finds James, who has bitten her. Edward first thinks she's dead and goes crazy with pain and guilt. Bella describes him as " an angel that is unfortunate to be so unhappy that he cries tearless broken sobs ". This makes him more beautiful than she ever has seen, besides the time he became outraged because she didn't care at first that he wanted to kill her. Edward's family arrive and destroy James, while Edward sucks the venom out of Bella's system to prevent her from turning, though it takes a high level of willpower to keep him from killing her.

He then lifts her up and carries her out of the burning building. At the hospital, he tries to talk Bella into moving to Florida to live with her mother in order to protect her from his world, but she talks him out of the idea. After they return to Forks, Edward takes Bella to their prom, much to her dismay.

He resolves that he isn't going to change her into a vampire, but she is adamant that the discussion isn't over. Midnight Sun retells the events of Twilight from Edward's perspective. That day Bella first arrives at Forks High School , Edward has already heard everyone's expectations and treated the news with nonchalance.

When he first sees Bella in the cafeteria, he realizes he is unable to read her mind, much to his annoyance. Later in Biology, her scent hits his nostrils with a surge and nearly overwhelms his vampiric side as she is his " singer ". With barely enough control over his primal instincts, Edward makes it through the hour and runs off to Denali. Tanya talks him into returning home and face his problems head on, which encourages him to properly introduce himself to Bella the next week.

As Edward converses with Bella, he finds himself infatuated by her in ways he never expected: none of her answers ever came out of his anticipation, and her actions always drew attention. Finding himself unable to face Bella without putting her at risk, Edward prepares to leave Forks again. However, that next morning, Tyler Crowley nearly crushes Bella with his van when it spins out of control in her direction. Edward impulsively rushes in to save her and reveals his supernatural side in front of Bella.

While discussing the matter with his family, Rosalie and Jasper contemplate killing Bella to keep their family safe, which Edward repels with defiance.

The discussion comes to a new direction when Alice reveals two visions: either Bella joins their family or she dies as a human. Repulsed by the idea of ending Bella's life, Edward is determined to keep his distance. He successfully avoids contact with Bella at school for nearly two months. His resistance comes to an end when he realizes he has fallen in love with her. Still determined to keep her alive and humanity intact, Edward slowly opens up his infatuation toward the human girl.

When she tells him she learned he is a vampire after encountering Jacob Black down on La Push and that she doesn't care, Edward is both furious and touched: furious because she refuses to stay away from him; touched because she cares for him enough to be with him. After the unfortunate events that led them to meeting with James's coven , Edward leads James on a wild goose chase with Carlisle and Emmett to help.

James, somehow sensing that some of them had gifts, stays out of Edward's telepathic range, just enough for him to pick up his trail. Alice assists them by telling them which directions would lead them closer to the tracker, but even with their best efforts, James manages to get away. When they arrive at the airport, Edward is furious at Alice and Jasper for letting Bella slip away, and snatch a car to race to her rescue. Haunted by thoughts of potentially being too late, Edward opts going to the Volturi to get himself killed, which Alice tells him not to think about.

After making their way to the ballet studio, they manage to save Bella, but she has already been bitten. The taste was described as an explosion inside his body and mind, and he felt suffused with a strange kind of joy that made him feel healed and alive, and every nerve ending in his body thrummed with contentment.

It took Bella's voice to make him strong enough to stop. After Alice executed her plan to fabricate Bella's accident, Edward takes Bella to the hospital. He meets her mother for the first time and instantly notices two things: her blood smells sweeter than normal and she has a gift of drawing people to her aid. Witnessing the event unfold devastates him to the core, prompting him to make the decision to leave Bella.

Edward decides to stay by Bella's side until a signal would appear to tell him it was time to leave. Bella and Edward in New Moon. The story of New Moon begins with Bella being very upset by her 18th birthday, because she'll be "older" than the permanently year-old Edward.

During her birthday party Bella accidentally gets a paper cut while unwrapping a present, and Edward's brother, Jasper, attacks her, although members of the Cullen family hold him back while Edward knocks Bella behind him in an attempt to get her away from Jasper.

Bella falls through a glass table, receiving an arm laceration and forcing Emmett, Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, a worried Edward and an apologetic Esme to leave the room. Jasper's instinctive hunger for Bella's blood reminds Edward of the continual danger their relationship puts her in.

In a misguided attempt to protect Bella, he convinces her that he does not want her anymore and abandons her in the forest. He moves away with his family, leaving her heartbroken and depressed, as if her life as she knew it ceased to exist.

Although Edward lived as a vampire without romantic love for nearly a century before meeting Bella, he finds it difficult to live without her, becoming severely depressed at the prospect of an infinitely long and meaningless life. To keep his mind occupied, he leaves his family up North and tries to hunt Victoria , but loses her trail in somewhere in South America. After he mistakenly learns from his sister Rosalie that Bella has committed suicide based on a vision Alice had of Bella cliff diving - which is later explained to be done for recreational purposes - Edward becomes completely broken and attempts to convince a coven of powerful Italian vampires, the Volturi , to kill him, by explaining that he broke one of the most important vampire laws: telling Bella, a human, about the existence of vampires, but Aro , the leader of the Volturi, refuses as he finds his power useful to their collection.

Then, Edward decides to expose himself by appearing under sunlight during the St. Marcus Festival to make them kill him. Alice immediately has a vision of his death, and she and Bella rush to Italy to stop him before he fulfills his plans. During the festival, he is about to step into the light, but Bella manages to stop him and show him that she was still alive. Bella is then brought to meet the Volturi, and Edward and Alice find out that she is immune to other vampires' powers as well as his.

Though Aro is intrigued with Bella's immunity, they think of her as a liability that must be disposed of, until Alice shows them a vision she previously had of Bella becoming one of them in the future, and wins the permission to leave Volterra peacefully. After they return from Italy, Edward explains why he left and apologizes to Bella. She forgives him entirely, and they continue on with their relationship as if Edward had never left, with him promising never to leave her ever again.

His family also moves back to Forks to continue the way things were before they left. Upon realizing that their current situation — fear for Bella's humanity while they are together — is untenable, Bella successfully seeks the support of Edward's family for the idea of turning her into a vampire.

Edward becomes furious at the thought of Bella losing her humanity in order to be with him, but later agrees to change her himself if she agrees to marry him first.

Bella, traumatized by her parents' fate, argues against this. Sometime later, Jacob Black , a Quileute werewolf and friend of Bella who helped her while Edward was gone, confronts them. Edward thanks Jacob for protecting Bella while he was gone, and asks if there was anything he could do to repay him. Jacob says that he wants Edward to leave and never return, but Edward says that is only in Bella's power. Jacob also reminds Edward though he hasn't forgotten about the treaty, saying that it would be broken if he bit Bella.

This sparks anger from Bella, protesting that it is none of his business and that it is her choice. Her fury is interrupted by Charlie , who demands that Bella comes inside after Jacob turned in her secret motorcycle, and she storms home.

Eclipse continues the drama of Bella and Edward's relationship. Edward explains that he is reluctant to change Bella into a vampire because he believes that vampires are soulless creatures who have no place in heaven. Bella, whose opinion of marriage is jaded by the early divorce of her own parents, agrees to marry Edward on the condition he will make love with her while she is still human and change her into a vampire. He initially refuses, saying that he could easily lose control in the heat of the moment.

However, seeing how important it is to Bella, he agrees to try and make love with her while she is still human, but only after they are married. At first, Edward completely despises of the idea of having Jacob Black or the wolves near Bella and does everything he can to prevent their encounter, even buy Alice a yellow Porsche in exchange for a slumber party with Bella while he goes on a weekend hunting trip.

Eventually, he realizes how much he is forcing Bella based on his privilege on the wolves and agrees to tolerate her visits on a few conditions. He also learns from Bella that the Quileutes only turned into werewolves when they cross paths with vampires, allowing him to realize that they aren't really werewolves, but shapeshifters with the power to transform into wolves. This revelation is delivered to the Quileutes and the Volturi in Breaking Dawn. Meanwhile, Jacob Black declares his feelings for Bella and forcibly kisses her, trying to convince her to leave Edward for him.

Bella and Edward are both furious at Jacob for this, and Edward vows to break Jacob's jaw if he ever kisses Bella without her consent again. The plot is driven by the machinations of the vampire Victoria , who first met Bella and the Olympic Coven during the first book, Twilight.

Victoria, seeking revenge for the death of her mate James , is hunting Bella and creating newborn vampires to build an army. To combat this threat, the Cullens call on the Denali Coven for help, but the Denalis abandon them when the Cullens refuse to let them avenge Laurent 's death.

It is apparent that Irina was in love with him during a brief stay with her coven. Without any other options, an alliance is made between the Cullens and the Native-American werewolf pack led by Sam Uley and Jacob.

However, before the battle starts, Jacob overhears Edward and Bella's marriage plans, and threatens to get himself killed because Bella won't love him. Bella agrees to kiss Jacob if he stayed and while doing so, she realizes that she is also in love with him as well, despite her engagement to Edward. Edward surprisingly accepts this, saying that no matter who Bella chooses he'll be happy as long as she is.

Bella realizes that she loves Edward more than Jacob, and chooses him. Soon after this, Victoria and Riley , a newborn whom she pretended to love, find Bella's hiding spot. Edward manages to kill Victoria, with Seth Clearwater killing Riley. The Cullens and the Quileute werewolves, meanwhile, destroy her newborn army. Victoria and Riley almost kill Edward. After the battle, Bella visits Jacob and tells him that she has chosen Edward over him. Edward spends the night holding Bella as she cries over pushing Jacob away.

After she calms down, Edward asks Bella if she is sure that choosing him was the right decision, since he had never seen her in such pain. Bella, who had been in worse pain when Edward left her, assures him that she can live without Jacob, but not him. After hiring Alice to plan out their wedding, Edward tells Bella that they can make love before they get married, as he realizes that she spends too much of her life trying to please other people.

However, she refuses his offer and says that she will do everything the right way: marriage, making love, and then becoming a vampire. Bella then tells Edward that they need to tell Charlie about their engagement. Edward later secretly sends Jacob an invitation to his and Bella's wedding, thinking that Jacob deserves the choice to come or not. The ending shows Jacob running away in his wolf form after seeing the wedding invitation.

In The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner , Riley Biers tells the army about a coven of yellow-eyed vampires who plan to attack them and reclaim Seattle for themselves, and also mentions some of them having powers. This successfully manipulates the newborns into working together to destroy the Cullens. Edward makes his appearance at the end of the novella, referred to as the "redheaded mind reader" by Bree Tanner. Right before she dies, she uses her thoughts to tell him what she knows about Jane and Victoria's agreement, and also asks him to be nice to her surviving friend, Fred , if they ever cross paths in the future.

In the movie Eclipse , Carlisle and Esme are the ones to speak up. Near the beginning of Breaking Dawn , Edward marries Bella in a beautiful ceremony orchestrated by Alice. There is, however, a disturbance: Jacob's unexpected arrival, who eventually becomes violent towards Bella when he finds out that Edward is going to make love to her before turning her, as he fears that Edward will kill her.

They consummate their marriage, but Edward's passionate lovemaking sparks a fight between the newlywed couple: Edward is horrified that he has bruised and battered his new wife, but she insists that she is fine and wants Edward to make love to her again.

He vows not to do so again while she is still human, but eventually gives in and is glad to know that he has managed to avoid bruising Bella again. They spend their honeymoon hiking in the jungles, diving and keeping themselves occupied with all kinds of games. After a short period of time, Bella becomes very sick, and realizes that she is pregnant when she discovers a box of unused tampons.

Bella soon receives a phone call from Alice, and asks to speak to Carlisle. Edward soon falls into shock when he listens to their conversation. He realizes that what grows inside Bella needs to be killed. Edward rushes Bella off the island to see Carlisle, who confirms she is expecting his child. Edward fears that the pregnancy will kill her, and, unable to stand the thought, he tries to convince her into having an abortion.

However, she feels a bond with her unborn child and insists on giving birth. Edward doesn't give up so easily, going as far as to ask Jacob if he would conceive a child with Bella. The baby, however, eventually wins Edward over; when old enough, is able to let him hear its thoughts, and he is both shocked and delighted to find out that it already loves the two of them. Bella nearly dies giving birth in an emergency c-section, but Edward successfully delivers his baby girl with Jacob's help, whom Bella had named Renesmee.

Edward then injects his venom into Bella's heart, thus healing her wounds by turning her into a vampire. During Bella's painful transformation, Jacob goes crazy with rage when he thinks she is dead. Irrationally blaming Renesmee, he tries to kill her, but ends up imprinting on her instead.

In the movie , when the Uley pack attempts to destroy his daughter, Edward rushes to stop them with Alice and Jasper. They were initially outnumbered, but the rest of their family come to their aid in seconds, and then the Black pack. Through Jacob's thoughts, he learns that he had imprinted on his daughter. During Bella's transformation, Edward sits patiently by her side, waiting for her to recover.

He is also relieved by the renewed peace between the wolves and his family, and more importantly, the arrival of their half-human daughter; but incredibly irritated by Jacob's imprinting on her. When Bella wakes up from her transformation, Edward takes her out on her first hunt so she won't attack Renesmee.

He is impressed by her ability to resist the smell of human blood, but still irritated by his inability to read her mind. They are also given a cottage renovated by Esme as a present. Edward and Bella are extremely annoyed by Jacob's imprinting on Renesmee, but they later accept that it was involuntary. By this time, Edward and Jacob appear to have become friends, who does them a "favor" by telling Charlie about the supernatural world but restrains from telling him about vampires, which allows the Cullens to stay in Forks for a while longer.

Three months later, Irina , of the Denali coven , reports Renesmee to the Volturi as an immortal child , whose creation is forbidden. The Volturi gather their entire guard against the Cullens. In the month it takes for them to arrive, the Cullens turn to all their allies the La Push werewolves , the Denali Coven, and numerous other vampires for assistance. When the Volturi finally arrive, the confrontation comes close to a fight. Bella's gift becomes apparent in the fact that she can protect her and others around her from the Volturi's mental attacks.

This causes the Volturi to rethink their position. In the end, however, the Volturi are convinced that Renesmee is not a threat, and they leave. With the confrontation over, Edward, Bella and Renesmee are free to live their lives, though they suspect it may not be forever. At the end of the story, while alone with Edward, Bella removes her shield , allowing him to read her mind for the first time and realizing how much she truly loves him, which brings them even closer. And from then on, their happily ever after begins.

Edward is noted to be extremely attractive. Bella has often described his appearance as similar to the mythical Greek god, Adonis. His facial features are described as perfect and angular—high cheekbones, a strong jawline, perfect eyebrows, a straight nose and full lips.

His untidy hair retains the unusual bronze shade that he inherited from his biological mother, Elizabeth Masen. His eyes, once green, are now described as topaz or liquid gold.

His appearance changes if he goes long without feeding: his eyes darken, becoming onyx black, and purple bruise-like shadows appear beneath his eyes. Edward stands at 6'2", and has a thin and lanky but muscular body, remaining frozen physically at 17 years old, though he is technically over a hundred.