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Engraving by W. Holl depicting Lady Jane Grey wearing a pearl necklace and headdress, holding a flower and dressed in Tudor-era clothing.
Lady Jane Grey Lady Jane Grey became queen of England for nine days when she was 15 years old. She was executed when she was 16.

Lady Jane Grey

queen of England
Also known as: Lady Jane Dudley
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Assistant Master and Professor of History, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Consultant editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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Lady Jane Grey (born October 1537, Bradgate, Leicestershire, England—died February 12, 1554, London) was the titular queen of England for nine days in 1553. Beautiful and intelligent, she reluctantly allowed herself at age 15 to be put on the throne by unscrupulous politicians; her subsequent execution by Mary Tudor aroused universal sympathy. Lady Jane was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII through her mother, Lady Frances Brandon, whose own mother was Mary, the younger of King...

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