Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Days' Queen (TRIH ep 293, part 1)
1537 · Resource
This episode is the first of a two-part examination of Lady Jane Grey and the 1553 Tudor succession crisis. Holland and Sandbrook set the scene: Edward VI’s fervent Protestantism, the insecurity of the Tudor dynasty and Henry VIII’s obsession with a male heir.
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