Lady Jane Grey proclaimed queen: July 10th, 1553. (Months Past).(Tudor England)

History Today | July 1, 2003| | Copyright

THIN AND FRECKLED WITH sandy hair, and so short that she wore elevator shoes, Lady Jane Grey was Henry VIII's great-niece. She was born in the same month in 1537 as his son and successor, Edward VI, and her ambitious parents, hoping to marry her to Edward one day, paid special attention to her education and brought her up a convinced Protestant. A bookish intellectual, she was quite unable to cope with the real world and with being a pawn on the political chessboard. It was an extremely dangerous chessboard.

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