Series from 2018
In 1553, England is taken to the brink of civil war when the dying King Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, leaves the throne not to his Catholic elder sist…
On February 12, 1554, a 16-year-old young woman was executed at the Tower of London. She was Lady Jane Grey, and for nine brief days the prior year, she had ruled as Queen of England. Historian Helen Castor explains how powerful men manipulated events to try to ensure that a Protestant would succeed to the throne after the death of Edward VI, instead of his elder sister, the Catholic Mary Tudor.
Lady Jane Grey is known as the Nine Days Queen and, three days into her reign, the clock is ticking.
A victorious Mary Tudor decrees that Lady Jane Grey, her husband Lord Guildford Dudley and her father the Duke of Suffolk shall be executed.
