Lady Jane Grey. She was proclaimed Queen after the death of her cousin the protestant King Edward VI son of Henry VIII. For Jane its outcome was a personal catastrophe.
Jane was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII through his younger daughter Mary and was a first cousin once removed of Edward VI. The birth of Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey was executed on the Tower Green at the Tower of London in front of a group of her former subjects on February 12 1554 just hours after her husband Guildford.
The story of Lady Jane Grey who was Queen of England for only nine days.
Look at the Book. Her trial staged at Guildhall in the heart of the city of London was a very public humiliation. Through her mother Lady Frances Brandon she was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII. In 10th July to 19th July 1553 she became the de facto monarch for England and Ireland.