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The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey
Manage episode 377559932 series 3511828
Known to history as the "nine days queen", Lady Jane Grey is one of the most tragic figures from British history. Executed at the age of just sixteen on the orders of her cousin, Queen Mary I, just had briefly ruled as queen herself, but how did this come to be, and why was a distant cousin of King Edward VI given the throne in place of the Tudor Princesses, Mary and Elizabeth?
59 episoder
Manage episode 377559932 series 3511828
Known to history as the "nine days queen", Lady Jane Grey is one of the most tragic figures from British history. Executed at the age of just sixteen on the orders of her cousin, Queen Mary I, just had briefly ruled as queen herself, but how did this come to be, and why was a distant cousin of King Edward VI given the throne in place of the Tudor Princesses, Mary and Elizabeth?
59 episoder
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