Lady Jane Grey, 9 Days Queen of England

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Henry VIII’s only son Edward VI died tragically young. On his deathbed he signed a new will surpass his rightful heir, his Catholic sister Mary, and make his cousin, Protestant 16 year old Jane Grey the new Queen. The reluctant teenager sat on the throne for only 9 days before the people rallied behind Mary. Once she claimed her birthright, Queen Bloody Mary had her cousin beheaded in the tower of London.
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[@LindsayHoliday]

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[@disneydaniel3163]

The was a horrible history video about Lady Jane Grey

[@deyli.kazimova2862]

This is so historcal

[@SebaBayanta-zs8nh]

Request: A bit of a sqeuel to the DNA Test 2-parter video, but can you do a 2-parter video on the DNA Test for the Genetic heritage of the 22 German states prior to 1918, since almost all of the 10 modern hereditary monarchs have more German ancestry than locally, please

[@Kerriangel]

The tragedy is that she never had a choice. If it wasn’t Edward’s wishes, it was the pressure of her parents, husband and father in law which made her accept the throne. She knew she was doomed from the moment the crown was set on her head.

[@Rae-Annechu]

Exactly she never wanted to be queen, it was men in her life that made her a pawn in this and she thought when Edward was king she was 5th in line to the throne after her mother that she would not going to be queen anytime soon until Edward change his will

[@payrysdoscs4903]

Edward was a weird fellow...

[@Shane-Flanagan]

Plus, Edward was still a minor so had no right altering the Act of Succession

[@ladynikkie]

​@@Shane-Flanaganhe was king at the time so he had the authority. But he was also taking advantage of by shady people plus I believe they were poisoning him so he and Jane were victims

[@Shane-Flanagan]

@@ladynikkie Being a minor he didn't have full authority, that's why he had Lord Protectors so his he had no real right altering his father's Act of Succession which was valid

[@Mirandaconklin]

Hearing her story at 12 was entertaining, now at 21, it's just heartbreaking.

[@amarenee2020]

At 58 years it seems a complete and total waste of a young life! Poor Forced Queen Jane 😞 😢

[@aprilbrown8790]

Poor Jane she really was dealt a bad hand in all of this. She didn’t deserve what happened to her. She didn’t even want to be queen, she even acknowledges Mary as the rightful queen. Her parents, father in law, exploited the poor girl

[@karawigley6231]

Then her mom just carried on living as before under her daughter’s murderer in luxury it’s insane.

[@aprilbrown8790]

@@karawigley6231 IKR

[@Dixielanddelight83]

I think had Jane denounced her Protestant faith and recognized Catholicism as her new faith Queen Mary perhaps would've spared her life.

[@rachel_sj]

I always felt bad for Lady Jane Grey, reading about her life and death starting in middle school and wondering why a teen girl, being a pawn in the schemes of others, had to be beheaded so young…

[@jupiterrhotspot2005]

The sad thing is it wasn’t her fault but the men in control of her life couldn’t stand Queen Mary and their rebellion led to Jane’s execution😢

[@MaritheCreator2001]

That poor, sweet girl. Used by her parents, her husband and in law and never had a choice in anything.

[@marvingayefan1703]

This was very interesting. Most of the time when historians discuss Jane Grey they talk about her like she was some random far distant cousin that was pulled out of obscurity just because they were the right faith (sort of like George I). This describes her better as someone who was very much in the royal landscape, even though not the lawful inheritor of the crown.

[@lfgifu296]

Her story is tragic, although I don’t consider her a Queen. I wish her father had kept still during Wyatt’s rebellion, Queen Mary was determined to pardon her, and even days before her scheduled execution, she tried to convert her to Catholicism because that would eliminate her as a threat… Henry Grey ruined his life and that of his daughter

[@giselematthews7949]

I have to agree.

[@KL-ki8db]

I would personally consider her to be the second "technical" queen, but not a legitimate one. Same thing with Matilda as they were named as the heirs by the monarch most previous to them. They were queens by technicality although not successfully with Jane being only Queen for 9 days while Matilda was met with rebellion and disagreements about her ruling the country due to her sex. I will definitely agree with the sentiment that Jane's immediate family that has treated her so horribly before has wronged her even further when they pretty much caused her to be executed.

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

Hi friend.

[@cynthiaromo4170]

But Jane was a queen

[@andypham1636]

did you not watch the video? she had no desire to be queen, acknowledged the throne was Mary's, + was pressured into it @@cynthiaromo4170

[@janeyrevanescence12]

I remember reading a quote attributed to her: “For when I am in the presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it as it were in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips and bobs and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) ... that I think myself in hell.” She really didn’t have any say in her life, now did she? If her father hadn’t rebelled, she wouldn’t have lost her head.

[@areiaaphrodite]

You should do a video on her sisters next. They weren't executed, but they both still had sad, hard lives mostly because of Elizabeth I.

[@redadmiralofvalyria867]

I do believe the house of Grey went on through THEIR bloodline into the modern/current day/age

[@areiaaphrodite]

@redadmiralofvalyria867 ...I don't understand what you're trying to say...

[@HaniaAmaal]

Elizabeth was just jealous of my girls. It made things harder for them. But their stories are important, no matter what she thought.

[@areiaaphrodite]

@Lady_Frances_Grey True. She stayed on their necks because they found love and marriage, which was totally unfair. That and she was paranoid because they were heirs to the throne as well.

[@HaniaAmaal]

@@areiaaphrodite Yes, she's an old hag. Elizabeth was so mean to my daughters because they could have babies. She's scared of anyone who could take her place.

[@areiaaphrodite]

Guildford: I swear to God, I will leave you and not sleep with you if you don't make me King! Jane: ....Sounds like you won't be King either way, then 🤷‍♀️ Try me, sir 😏

[@atozbakery9805]

She was a queen of England, even if only for 9 days. After all, she isn't called the 9 days pretender.

[@hollyoconnor2745]

Talk about a victim of circumstance. Lady Jane Grey didn't deserve any of it. She was too good for this sinful world.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

I think the stories of the Grey sisters: Jane, Katherine and Mary should get a show. I don't know of any other siblings getting kicked so hard by fate. Jane murdered at the age of 16/17, Katherine starving to death and Mary dying of the plague on her 33rd birthday.

[@thedorkone1516]

There really was no more dangerous place to be in Tudor England than close to the throne.

[@jetziiophelia9757]

It's crazy to think Mary and Elizabeth both executed their cousins for such similar reasons. I feel sad for Lady Jane.❤

[@HaniaAmaal]

Birds of a feather flock together.

[@andypham1636]

James VI/I later executed his relative for marrying without permission

[@ibrahimzayaan435]

Although Elizabeth executed Mary, queen of Scots because she was directly involved in a plot to have Elizabeth assassinated while Jane was just a pawn who had no real intentions of taking the throne from Mary. So it does make Jane’s story more tragic than Mary, queen of Scots.

[@Shane-Flanagan]

​@@ibrahimzayaan435Mary had spared Jane originally and had not intended on executing Jane and only did so thanks to Wyatt's rebellion. As long as Jane lived, Mary's reign would've been under constant threat of uprisings in Jane's name

[@blahblahblahblah729]

Charles Brandon was also King Henry's best friend, and was one of the few people elevated to a Dukedom even tho he wasn't of royal blood, and only by the favour he had with the king. As he loved his sister and his friend, he didn't dissolute the marrieage.

[@CaptainPikeachu]

Henry must have loved Charles very deeply, it always amazes me that given how many people lost their favor and their heads, Charles survived through it all and Henry even paid for his funeral in the end.

[@zim_christ_lion]

I feel great compassion and sympathy for Queen Jane. She deserves to be honoured and respected as a queen for the rest of history.

[@talllala]

You give the details other historical narrators lack and really bring the subjects to life. Hands down you are my favourite. Amazing work❤

[@LindsayHoliday]

Wow, thank you!

[@PepperReed214]

I've always been fascinated with Lady Jane Grey.

[@TheTidelines]

I've always felt so bad for Jane. She didn't want nor ask for any of this. She was extremely manipulated from birth. 😢

[@wardarcade7452]

Despite having had such close ties to the doomed Lady Jane Grey, her hapless husband Guilford's older brother Robert Dudley not only survived but even became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth the First AND, in turn,would become the stepfather of her flighty last known favorite, Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex!

[@Alusnovalotus]

I've often wondered if the English people rationalized that the Tudors were cursed by God for killing several Kings and Queens throughout their tenure on the throne. Seeing as they were taught to believe that monarchs were put there by God himself. Henry VII killed Richard III Henry VIII killed several of his Queens Edward VI took away the crown from his sisters Queen Mary killed the technically legal "Queen Jane Grey" Queen Elizabeth killed Mary Queen of Scots "Bloody royals" should be a mini series for this dynasty...

[@nancys2839]

Yes that would be a great title! Great comment

[@andypham1636]

queen Jane grey was not legal at any point.she had no desire, acknowledged it was Mary's right, + was basically pressured into it

[@Anna-B]

@@andypham1636the King made her his legal heir. If anyone was at fault, it was him for changing the line of succession. She was legitimately the Queen, but Mary also had a legitimate claim, since she was wrongfully passed over

[@andypham1636]

she was not legitimately the queen, since parliament didn't approve his devise of the succession @@Anna-B

[@Alusnovalotus]

@@andypham1636 This is true, but Jane had the right to tell Mary it wasn't her fault and pointed fingers at her family. She was abused and threatened all the time, What would she have to lose? exile to a nunnery? to France? She had a better shot to have begged mercy and leniency of the Queen by being honest and repeating in an abdication notice that she accepted under duress and had never entertained the idea of taking Mary's crown.

[@Flamsterette]

Teenagers thrown into what they couldn't understand.

[@tuikkur.5655]

Queen Jane Grey was the great granddaughter of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. She was also the great granddaughter of Thomas Grey, Elizabeth Woodvilles eldest son. So she was the great great granddaughter of Elizabeth Woodville from both of her mother's and father's side. Such an interesting lineage.

[@rowennoonan6716]

wow so her parents were half second cousins??

[@emilybarclay8831]

@@rowennoonan6716yep, very common at the time. After the wars of the roses, so many noble men had been killed or imprisoned that the upper class in England consisted of pretty much 4 or 5 families that all traded brides back and forth. The Howard’s, Bolyens, Seymour’s, Neville’s and Percy’s were the main noble families and any prominent figure of the time is practically guaranteed to have blood or marriage ties to one of them. Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn were first cousins, Jane Seymour’s mother was a half-first cousin of Anne Boleyn’s mother and Catherine Howard’s father, Catherine Parr was married to Jane Seymour’s brother after Henry’s death, etc etc. It was basically one huge extended family

[@bmaria8011]

i also find it so sad and interesting, that elizabeth woodville, who’s was the grandmother of henry the 8th thus great grandmother of mary 1, was also the mother of the grey line, i think she was the great great grandmother of lady jane grey, thus they were all truly cousins multiple ways around both through mary’s daughter marrying into the grey line but also through their ancestor elizabeth woodville herself

[@michaelablair4689]

If I remember correctly that branch was deceased from one of her brothers who she had married into a wealthy family once she became queen. One of the reasons people didn’t like was because of her marrying her kin “above their station” EDIT: I just checked Jane’s father was also descended from Elizabeth woodvile from her eldest son from her first marriage

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

You're the Queen of narration! Your voice is the cherry on top! Love your work! Its always amazing! Keep beign amazing! ❤❤❤❤👸👸👸👸👸👸👸

[@mirandaminor6515]

The thing that got to me was after sheknew Mary would be queen she asked can I go home now I mean how sad and tragic is that!!! The poor girl just wanted to go home

[@karawigley6231]

It’s so sad how women were used as pawns for men as a means of power & as soon as the tides changed were abandoned. It’s even sadder how the ones that manage to survive through it just carry on as if they are not the reasons for their daughters, nieces & etc demise. So sad.

[@katherinebreeggemann6973]

All these movies and shows about Anne Boleyn and Mary, Mary, and Elizabeth. But we really should have this story as a tv series

[@christopherdrago]

There is only one that I know of, the 1986 film Lady Jane starring a teenage Helena Bonham-Carter. The film is very well-done, though historically inaccurate in some details. There is definitely room for a new take on this bit of history.

[@AliSakurai]

She probably thought death was the only escape from the hell she was living. That incubator was still alive, who knows what would have happened if she got her hands on Lady Jane again.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

You manage to pack SO much amazing info into your content. It’s awesome! I always look forward to your content. And you're such an incredible story teller girl! I could hear you talk about milk and still have a great time! Thanks lindsay! Feel really bad for her. She deserved better. Can you please cover blessed karl of austria?

[@carag2567]

I love Lindsay's narration as well! She could talk about the exact process of how paint dries and I would find it entertaining. 😅

[@Laramaria2]

Poor girl... Another tragic life of a kid that was used by more powerful people...

[@ariiiiiiiiiiiiiii.]

None of this was her fault. It was her parents fault. She never wanted the crown yet was forced to take the crown & it eventually led to her parents doom.

[@HaniaAmaal]

It most definitely isn't my fault. I won't stand for anyone questioning how I raised my children!!!!!

[@lauratude5132]

"Yadda yadda, we can't have a female queen." They clearly couldn't plan this well. They ended up with the brief queen Jane, queen Mary and queen Elizabeth. Maybe if it wasn't for the prejudice, their paths could have been less tragic.

[@misscrescentmoonie]

this girl was only 17! she never asked for this and how she died is truly heart-breaking!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love Your videos! You always make My day! Your narration and research are second to none! Your History of England videos are my favorites! Thank you!

[@Victoria-Schnepf]

I was literally just thinking this morning that this would be an interesting video lol. Thank you! I love all of your videos!

[@TheBlondeLioness]

Hi Lindsay! I finally wanted to write to u & say how much I love your channel! I watch & re-watch all your videos...I'm a history nerd! Lol I do listen to u on Spotify but I love watching the videos for the pictures too. Thank u so much, your videos calm and soothe me from life and whatever problems I have. Keep it up you're terrific!

[@LindsayHoliday]

Thank you so much!!

[@pete4096]

@LindsayHoliday, I had no idea that the odds of Queen Jane prevailing had been so high. Thank you for this insight!

[@elizabethtudorstuff]

Yes!!!!!!! Was waiting for a Lady Jane video!

[@littlemissliv100]

Thank you for explaining the lineage

[@PerfectlyImperfect93]

Thank You Lindsay! ❤

[@charlinemorris2337]

Thanks for the update video history tea 🍵 and wonderful speech and keep up the good work history tea 🍵✌️😍👏👍😎🤛😊✊😎🤗

[@Amaya_]

The guy in the painting with her blindfolded at her execution (Sir Thomas Brydges) is my 14x Great Grandpa lol

[@ashtondmello1968]

How do you know that

[@Amaya_]

@@ashtondmello1968 How do I know its Thomas Brydges or my 14x Great Grandpa?

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thanks I always felt so sad for her.😔🌹

[@LJB103]

Philip was not King of Spain when he married Mary in 1554. Charles V still reigned and he made his son Philip King of Naples and Sicily so that he would be a king to Mary's queen. He was only King of Spain for the last 2 years of Mary's reign (1556 - 1558)

[@andypham1636]

yes

[@andypham1636]

Charles I in spain

[@wyzemann]

I am no feminist in the least, but the thought of pre-adult girls being “betrothed” to decrepit old geezers or wealthy noblemen enrages me to no end. The male Tudors’ vain attempt to install a dude on the throne cost too many decent and innocent girls/women their dignity & life😡. Thank God Elizabeth I proved her Daddy & brother WRONG. I'll argue the Queen surpassed both in intellect & strength of character.

[@JohnbixchiOffical]

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[@heratrick530]

How terrifying. That poor girl, waking up everyday with people slowly disappearing and leaving her basically to the slaughter. So so sad.

[@thesella]

Alison Weir's book Innocent Traitor was an excellent book on Jane Grey. Read it if you ever get the chance. Jane's story was so tragic. I put her death solely on her parents AND Mary

[@octavianpopescu4776]

I'd also recommend "Three Maids for a Crown" by Ella March Chase. It's fiction, but it expands the story to include her sisters, Katherine and Mary, who also had horrible fates. Both were imprisoned for getting married without permission. Katherine starved to death (either from depression after the long imprisonment or from TB, as a lack of appetite is a symptom), while Mary was eventually released, but fate kicked her one last time, dying of the plague on her birthday. Seriously, someone should make a series about the 3 Grey sisters.

[@MononofuLynn]

Could you consider doing a video on the Jimena Dynasty? Particularly the siblings Sancho, Alfonso, Gracia and their sister Urraca?

[@Shane-Flanagan]

Mary I, the first undisputed Queen regnant of England 👑

[@robertb4000]

I can't believe!!! She didn't want to become queen. But instead she got beheaded because of a "Rebellion"

[@theresalaux5655]

Thanks!

[@LindsayHoliday]

Thank you so much!!!

[@hannahlouise1102]

Can you please do a series on the kings of France as well as the queen consorts of France?

[@leonievw2466]

16 years... I can't imagine...😢

[@50PullUps]

I’m American, so my education was focused primarily around the prior 250-300 years. European history was also taught, but not as heavily as what happened this side of the Atlantic. Around what year can we say that Protestantism went mainstream in Europe? Martin Luther published the 95 in 1517. It’s wild to think that only appx 35 years later, people were getting beheaded over Catholic vs. Protestant.

[@Alex-zs7gw]

Roots of objection to Catholicism tenets and certain practices date back to the end of the 14th century in various locations. E.g. the Lollards. Like Catholicism, the furore of Protestantism really depends on where and when but Luther's protest did kick of a series of events which culminated in different ways. Anglicanism for example was created in 1532, as nothing more than a ploy for Henry to disobey the Pope and have his divorce. It was Catholicism in all but name, and he even persecuted those holding extreme Protestant values. That doesn't however mean that the Calvinist/Lutherist ideologies hadn't spread already (the Greys, Katherine Parr for e.g.) - and once Edward came to power he had been fully indoctrinated with a radicalised privy council lead by Seymour. I'd argue that Edward and Jane were truly radicalised, whilst any executions or persecutions from Mary, Elizabeth, James and Charles being more political, security or influenced than fierce conviction (Mary obviously contrasting the others due to the traditionalist nature of her alignment and the manipulated reputation being put on her after her reign). It's really the 17th century where it becomes mass culture wars - both continental Europe (30y war) and UK (civil war). The death toll of the 30 Year War wouldn't be topped in Europe until WW1! The Puritans for example were considered extremists even then - by both England and the Netherlands (both Protestant nations) and is why they were exiled. Their radicalism caused the brief authoritarianism of Republic under Cromwell and is probably even why the US is WAY more religious than we are in Europe to this day

[@juliesarnoff-clark9543]

Would you consider doing videos about some of earldoms and dukedoms and their roles in history?

[@Richardsonprincess00]

Felt sorry for Jane that she doesn't want to be queen only lasted for a week, costing the Grey family members downfall, hope to show of Jane's family background soon.

[@teewarrior4921]

Love you Lindsey ❤

[@luiscaruso2794]

Poor Jane 😢 so heartbreaking

[@aliceingoryland]

I found a fascinating book on the tie between the last Habsburgs (Franz Ferdinand and Sophie's children)and Hitler.

[@nancys2839]

Could you please share the title for those of us who would like to read it? History is fascinating

[@andypham1636]

Franz Ferdinand + Sophie's children were not Habsburgs, because their marriage was morganatic. Charles I + Zita's children were the last, actually

[@samanthac3357]

I know your channel is based on the royalties but would you considered doing videos.on the dukes and dutchess that help shape their countries.

[@caraazur]

Please make a video about Alfred the Great! Also about Vikings!

[@user-ih7sc3jb5i]

Love these stories can anyone tell me how they made all the elaborate clothes in this era if they were handmade how did they not fall apart

[@katelijnesommen]

How do you mean? Handmade clothes made with the proper know-how are generally far sturdier than the flimsy fast fashion stuff we mostly have now, which is literally designed to disintegrate in two years. The fabrics of the clothes these royal people would wear were high-quality and expertly treated. If there was damage to a piece it would also be repaired, lengthening the life span of a piece of clothing.

[@slytheringingerwitch]

Some legend is just that.

[@ginacaradonna8063]

Very tragic and so much violence.

[@BroDeeBee1989]

I have always held a theory that had Edward have lived, He and Lady Jane would’ve gotten married. They were close in age and as we know the royals have no qualms in marrying their first cousins all the way to the 19th Century.

[@rayanali781]

Hello, I love your channel! I was wondering if you could do a video about Edward IV of England's illegitimate children.

[@andypham1636]

he had some??

[@pedanticradiator1491]

​@@andypham1636 several I believe

[@andypham1636]

@@pedanticradiator1491 bruh I thought he was faithful to Elizabeth woodvile

[@pedanticradiator1491]

@andypham1636 oh god no

[@rayanali781]

@@andypham1636 I wish but I think he had 4? so that's why I want a video about it so I can be certain.

[@theboleynnerd]

Please do a video on Katherine Howard

[@theboleynnerd]

​@theashwoodfaerie Like a dedicated video to her I mean

[@LeahWalentosky]

A lot of commoners never even heard of Jane Gray at that time.

[@Mouthy.krybaybee]

Woe to those who betrayed my sisters in their own blood. May their souls never rest until they know the extent of their sin upon woman.

[@sugarplum5824]

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Shakespeare certainly spoke the truth. Poor Jane; a tragic pawn for others who craved power. 😢

[@damonika09]

Poor Jane Grey.

[@rosanneshale923]

So sad for her

[@briiannagorskii]

are you able to do a video on Joan of Arc? thank youuuu i love your channel!!!

[@CaitlinSk]

I keep coming back to ask you to do more POCs...Seondeok, Myeongseong, Suiko, etc. More Asians and other POCs

[@joyfrazier8260]

Is there a code for the free month of Magellan?

[@paigeburleson6932]

What in the world was the little Henry holding in his lap there??

[@idontcare6505]

9 days ago is very fitting

[@E.D1282]

Of all the excecutions this one really made me feel sad, she couldn't even defend herself and was never given a choice, poor girl she was too young 😢

[@madonnahood3381]

I believe through his mother, Mary, he was next in line for the throne.

[@VJAllison1974]

She was another tragic figure in the Tudor dynasty.

[@user-co6bn1wq7j]

oh my gosh im early!!! love your videos

[@Flamsterette]

*I'M

[@godslaya4563]

😭😭😭

[@neilwinchester9187]

A very sad story. Her family used and betrayed her.

[@divinnelifeschool]

I have a video idea for you Rani Jhansi Bai from India She was a very fear some Warrior just like boudica of the United Kingdom she is still very praised in India all those she lost the war you should definitely make a video on her in your series queens of the world Royal couple really in love part 2 Empress Anna of Russia Matilda queen of England the first ruling queen of UK Cleopatra of Egypt Isabella the second of Spain

[@andypham1636]

not disputing Matilda's reign, but she never styled herself queen, she called herself "lady of the English"

[@divinnelifeschool]

​@@andypham1636you are right but she did have power for sometime

[@andypham1636]

Also, even though Cleopatra is typvially known as just that, she was actually the 7th of that name to reign in Egypt

[@sidoniejordan-olsen7673]

It's interesting that 38 was thought to be too old to have any more children. My mom had me at 38.

[@emilybarclay8831]

She had modern medicine and nutrition. Women back then didn’t, and even today conceiving naturally at 38 can be a real struggle.

[@drangonfliepink79]

I really heard you say Reading playdough not Plato lol

[@crimsonanna1980]

When King Edward was choosing the succession, why didn't he disqualify Princess Marry on the ground of her religion instead of her illegitimacy? Then he could have chosen Princess Elizabeth.

[@emilybarclay8831]

There was no legal precedent for that. If you declared Mary illegitimate, those same laws you used to do that would declare Elizabeth illegitimate. Plus, Edward appears to have legitimately believed the Boleyn marriage to be illegitimate. The marriage was annulled, so legally it never happened. Which begs the question, how could Anne have committed adultery against Henry when she was never married to him, but hey, Henry VIIi wasn’t one for logic and reason

[@pickupthephonem]

i have never clicked on a video so fast omg

[@Edmonton-of2ec]

I do wonder what would’ve happened if Jane’s mother Frances had been made the next Queen instead

[@khorkienjoo5292]

Who's here after watching the Horrible Histories short about her?

[@CaitlinSk]

Technically Jane Grey was Queen Regnant for 13 days

[@susanbergquist3550]

Pretty sad.

[@zabrinna6554]

❤

[@cynthiaromo4170]

She's the second queen

[@Aliaandkazi]

So sad im lucky in born in these days❤❤❤

[@CaitlinSk]

Queen Mary did NOT want to execute Jane. But was left with little choice

[@emilybarclay8831]

Mary was eager to execute Jane the moment her foreign husband said he wouldn’t sleep with her if Jane was still alive

[@zay4401]

February 12th is my birthday..