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England's Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey

2018 • Documentary, History

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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 sister, Mary, but to his Protestant cousin, Lady Jane Grey. Historian Helen Castor reveals the manipulations and political maneuverings by powerful men that ultimately lead a pious and uncommonly intelligent young woman to the scaffold for treason.