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Jun 26, 2024 · A short-lived teenage monarch in Tudor history has now inspired a fantastical TV romp on Prime Video. But ridiculous as it is, it highlights how the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey was much more than...
Sep 26, 2024 · Who was Lady Jane‚ and why does the story of her disastrous reign still resonate today? Here’s how the teenager became queen and lost the throne in just a few fateful days in 1553.
Jun 27, 2024 · My Lady Jane depicts her as fiercely independent, and hell bent on never getting married. In the show, Jane is married off to English nobleman Guilford Dudley against her will.
Jun 24, 2022 · In the days leading up to King Edward’s death, John Dudley, his advisor, added pressure to change his will, naming Jane as his successor. On the 6th of July 1553, King Edward died at the age of fifteen. Four days later, on the 10th of July, Dudley proclaimed Jane Queen of England.
The political confusion of the mid-1550s encouraged the fanciful, for many works by or about Jane were lost or purposely destroyed, perhaps even portraits. Rumour and speculation tilled the gap in the public record. Fantasy was given further licence in the decades immediately after her death because it was then impolitic to write about her.
A contemporary eyewitness observed that the marriage was ‘the first act of a tragedy’: it was a prediction that would transpire to be chillingly accurate. The bride, Lady Jane Grey, was the sixteen-year-old daughter of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, and his wife, Lady Frances Brandon.
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Sep 27, 2024 · Lady Jane Grey (born October 1537, Bradgate, Leicestershire, England—died February 12, 1554, London) was the titular queen of England for nine days in 1553. Beautiful and intelligent, she reluctantly allowed herself at age 15 to be put on the throne by unscrupulous politicians; her subsequent execution by Mary Tudor aroused universal sympathy.
