Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Contemporary Review | February 1, 2004 | Copyright

Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen. Alison Plowden. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]18.99. ix + 182 pages. ISBN 0-7509-2816-6. The author has made a name for herself as a reliable biographer of royal ladies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this book she turns her attention to Lady Jane Grey, a great niece of Henry VIII and the wife of the Duke of Northumberland's son. This meant that she was the logical choice when Edward VI presumed to name his heir to keep his Catholic sister, Mary, from succeeding. As the Protestant successor to the Protestant King she ...

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