Despite this warning, Edmund continued to plan to meet with Jadis again, and when questioned by Peter and Susan, Edmund lied and refused to admit that he had in fact seen Narnia. Lucy warned Edmund that Narnia was ruled by an evil witch who claimed to be the Queen.

Shortly afterwards, he found Lucy in the forest, and the two returned to the Professor's house.

Edmund agreed, even though he had no real interest in his siblings getting anything, and promised to keep it a surprise, bidding farewell to the Queen. She offered to make him a prince if he brought his siblings to her realm, to make them dukes and duchesses. Over the course of their chat, Edmund, who of course had no idea of the significance of his information beyond the fact he was telling it to a complete stranger, told her a great deal about his family, and that Lucy had already visited her country, and that she had met Mr. After inviting him to sit and talk with her, and conjuring him food and drink, the Queen confided in Edmund that she had always wanted a son like him to be her heir. The woman introduced herself as Jadis, the Queen of Narnia.

While he was there, he soon stumbled across a sleigh carrying a large lady. He was shocked to discover she had been telling the truth, as he found himself in a wintry forest. Shortly afterwards, Edmund followed his little sister through the wardrobe, where she claimed her magical country existed. Tumnus, through a Wardrobe, hidden somewhere inside the Professor's mansion. Shortly after their arrival, Edmund began mocking Lucy who professed to have visited Narnia, and befriended a Faun called Mr. They were sent to live in the countryside with an old professor called Professor Digory Kirke. Some time later, in the month of September, in 1940, Edmund and his siblings were evacuated from London, due to the German bombings on the city. The experience was apparently a bad one for him, as his personality afterwards began to get worse.Īround this time, World War II began, and the children's father was called away to fight in the war. At this time, the Pevensie family lived in London, England.Įdmund began attending boarding school with his brother Peter in 1939, at the age of nine. In 1932, sometime before his second birthday, his sister Lucy was born. Edmund was born in 1930, the third child of his parents, Mr.

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