Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Days' Queen (TRIH eps 293-294)
1553 · Resource
This episode — the second part of a two-part feature on Lady Jane Grey — recounts the rapid rise and fall of the teenage claimant known as the Nine Days' Queen. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook track events from Jane's proclamation and ceremonial entry into the Tower of London through the strategic errors of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and Jane's own constrained agency. They explain Mary I's flight to East Anglia, her shrewd use of legitimacy and networks (notably in Framl...
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