LADY JANE GREY
NINE-DAY QUEEN OF ENGLAND
By Faith Cook. Evangelical Press. 249 pages. £13.95
ISBN 0 85234 579 9
The story of Lady Jane Grey’s life and her death by execution at the age of 16 is one of tragedy and triumph which deserves to be better known.
Her tragedy sprang from being too close in line of succession to the throne. As a result, she was used as a pawn by unscrupulous and self-serving nobles, including her own parents. She was set up as queen on the death of the Protestant King Edward VI in place of the rightful successor, the Roman Catholic Mary Tudor. When Mary secured the throne, Jane was executed for her unwilling part in the usurpation and because she represented a potential danger to the queen.
