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Dan Snow's History Hit

Lady Jane Grey

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.712.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On a cold February morning in 1554, Lady Jane Grey was beheaded for high treason. Named as King Edward VI as his successor, Queen Jane had reigned for just 13 tumultuous days before being imprisoned in the Tower, condemned and executed. In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to author and historian Nicola Tallis who reveals the moving, human story of an intelligent, independent and courageous young woman, forced onto the English throne by the great power players in the Tudor court.  

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0:00.0

I have one. Welcome to Dance I'm History. I'm not about Tudor Queens. Tudor Queens is a hot topic. Not only do we know about

0:07.2

the extraordinary lady Margaret Beaufort,

0:11.4

Henry the Samp's mother, the make sure the Tudor dynasty and hugely important in steering her son

0:17.7

towards the throne. Then we get the brilliant Elizabeth of York,

0:21.4

who Henry the Samp's beloved wife and his mother. We don't hear enough about those two because they're all over shadowed by Henry the eights Queens,

0:27.7

his six wives and then married Tudor and her sister Elizabeth, who are both hugely prominent on the Kings and Queen lists of English history.

0:36.4

And then many people have heard of Mary Queen Scots and unfortunate Tudor,

0:41.3

executed by her cousin. What about that Tudor Queen? We don't hear too much about at all. Lady Jane Gray.

0:49.4

Proclaim Queen rules, if you can say that for nine days and then was executed when her cousin Mary was swept the throne instead of her.

0:59.3

Lady Jane Gray is a deeply tragic figure in English history and a fascinating figure.

1:06.2

She paid with her life for the machinations of others around her who sought to rule through her to exercise their influence through her with her safely installed on the throne.

1:15.8

This is an episode of my pod, which features Susana Lipscomb's brilliant, not just the Tudor's pod in which she talks all about Lady Jane Gray.

1:24.7

Susana is interviewing the brilliant Nicola Talis for this episode, who I've had on the podcast talking about Margaret Boffert.

1:30.6

So Nicola Talis is an expert in each Tudor Queens as they both are. So it's great to hear this conversation.

1:36.8

It's great to share it on this podcast. If you want to listen to previous episodes of this podcast without the ads.

1:41.5

So for example, listen to Nicola Talis talking about Margaret Boffert or Susana Lipscomb talking about many things.

1:46.8

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1:55.2

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2:02.6

Lots of people on there watching World War II documentary at the moment.

2:06.0

We've got another episode of Ray Mears. It's prehistoric documentary series coming out this week. So it's all happening at history hit.tv.

2:12.5

And subscribe straight away. Well, just listen to this episode first. It's not just the Tudors. We Susana Lipscomb and Nicola Talis. Enjoy.

2:25.5

Nicola, welcome to Not Just the Tudors. It is lovely to talk to you in what I hope will be the first of many chance.

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