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The Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times

Chapter 1: THE NINE DAYS’ QUEEN
By Richard Davey
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The narrative reconstructs the upbringing and education of a studious young noblewoman, sketching her family background and the intellectual influences that shaped her. It then maps the tangled sequence of aristocratic conspiracies and factional rivalries that raised her to a contested throne for a brief interval. The account follows the proclamation, the rapid reversal of fortune, the subsequent trial and fate, and the outcomes for the principal conspirators. The author emphasizes personal documents and testimony to show how ambition, religious partisanship, and political maneuvering combined in a compact succession crisis.

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Title: The Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times

Author: Richard Davey

Editor: Martin A. S. Hume

Release date: November 10, 2015 [eBook #50427]
Most recently updated: October 22, 2024

Language: English

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ROMANTIC HISTORY
General Editor: Martin Hume, M.A.

THE NINE DAYS’ QUEEN

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

The Pageant of London
The Sultan and his Subjects

LADY JANE GREY

FROM THE PAINTING BY LUCAS DE HEERE AT ALTHORP

THE
NINE DAYS’ QUEEN

LADY JANE GREY
AND HER TIMES

BY
RICHARD DAVEY

EDITED, AND WITH INTRODUCTION, BY
MARTIN HUME, M.A.

WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

First Published in 1909

TO
MY DEAR WIFE
ELEANORA DAVEY