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On July 9, 1553, 16 year old Lady Jane Grey learned she would become Queen after King Edward VI named her as his successor. Lady Jane, known as the 'Nine Day Queen', was later abandoned by her Privy Council as they flocked to Mary I's side. She was held in the Tower of London until her execution at 17 years old on February 12, 1554.

Come along with us as we untangle Jane's life from the succession crisis and martyrdom through history and astrology.

Sources:

Books:

• Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey by Nicola Tallis
• Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: 246. Lady Jane Grey by John Foxe
• A Hidden History of the Tower of London by John Paul Davis
• The House of Dudley by Joanne Paul
• Innocent Traitor by Allison Weir
• Lady Jane Grey by Hester W. Chapman
• Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery by Eric Ives
• The Literary Remains of Jane Grey with a Memoir of Her Life by Nicholas Harris
• Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England by Megan L. Hickerson

Digital Media:

• England’s Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey (Amazon Prime)
• The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JirVfl8gsj8)
• King & Queens of England 5/8 - The Tudors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB0YSvKHYlg)

Primary Sources:

• Ambassades De Messieurs De Noailles En Angleterre, Vol. 2 by René Aubert Vertot
• Annals of England to 1603 by John Stow
• Anonymous Narrative of Dowager Queen Katherine Parr’s Funeral & Burial in the Chapel of Sudeley Castle
• The chronicle of Queen Jane
• The Education of a Christian Woman by Juan Luis Vives
• Jane’s prayerbook (https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2021/02/lady-jane-greys-letters-from-the-tower-of-london.html)
• Letter from John of Ulm to Conrad Pellican, 29 May 1551
• Letter from Ambassadors to Charles V, 10 July 1553
• Letter from Ambassadors to Charles V, 16 August 1553

Websites:

• Astro-seek.com
• Bradgate Park (https://www.bradgatepark.org/)
• Contexts: Women in Power, An Open Companion to British Literature (https://pressbooks.pub/earlybritishlit/chapter/women-in-power-the-tudors/)
• Lady Jane Grey (https://www.tudorsociety.com/lady-jane-grey/)
• Lady Jane Grey: The 'Nine Day Queen' (https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/lady-jane-grey/)
• Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide (https://www.ladyjanegrey.info)
• Syon Park (https://syonpark.co.uk/)

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