Lady Jane Grey. After the death of her first husband King Louis XII of France in 1515 Mary secretly wed her true love Charles Brandon. Lady Jane Grey c.
Hers was a high-status family both her parents were frequently at court. Her father was spared a few more days before. To explain why we first have to offer an all-too-brief primer on the political background of Tudor England up to this point.
But behind the popular biographies of the Tudor Queen lies a different story.
Once the executioner had had time to make his way back from Tower Hill Jane was led out to the scaffold. It tells the story of Lady Jane Grey her marriage to Lord Guildford Dudley and her reign as the Nine Days Queen following the death of Edward VI of England. Lady Jane Grey also called from 1553 Lady Jane Dudley born October 1537 Bradgate Leicestershire Englanddied February 12 1554 London titular queen of England for nine days in 1553. Lady Jane Grey was executed on the Tower Green at the Tower of London in front of a group of her former subjects on February 12 1554 just hours after her husband Guildford.