Lady Jane Grey is usually remembered as a tragic pawn, a frightened girl forced onto the throne by ambitious men. But that story simply doesn’t hold up.
When Jane was told she was queen, she wept and insisted that Mary was the rightful heir. Yet once she learned that Edward VI had named her, she made a deliberate choice. She embraced the crown as God’s will, and she ruled.
This video reveals a very different Jane:
The teenage queen who signed herself “Jane the Quene”
The ruler who ordered troops, guards, curfews, and proclamations
The young woman who chose her husband’s title and took charge of London
The prisoner who refused to bend, denounced Catholicism, and argued theology with the queen’s own chaplain
The sixteen-year-old who faced death with unshakable conviction
Jane Grey was not weak.
She was not passive.
She was unyielding.
This is Part One of Two Tough Cookies, a two-part series on the rival queens of July 1553.
In Part Two, we turn to Mary: the woman who outmanoeuvred every obstacle and claimed her throne.
Watch Jane’s story here , and discover why both queens of 1553 were far tougher than history often admits.
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