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So here's a thing that doesn't get said enough about Lady Jane Gray.

We tell her story as a tragedy, which it absolutely is.

But in telling it as a tragedy, we tend to flatten her

into a victim, the pale, scholarly girl who got swept up in powerful men's schemes and paid

for it with her life, the innocent pawn, the nine days queen. And I want to push back on that,

because the real Jane Gray is so much

more interesting than the tragic victim version. This was a young woman who at 16 was considered

one of the most learned people in England, full stop, not just one of the most learned women.

She argued theology with senior churchmen, and she held her own.

She read Greek and Latin and Hebrew.

She had opinions, strong ones, and she was not afraid to share them with people who had a great deal more power than she did.

There's this story about Mary Tudor sending Jane a beautiful dress, cloth of

gold and velvet, really extravagant stuff. And Jane, who had adopted a deliberately austere

style of dress as a Protestant statement, refused to wear it. And her reasoning, which was recorded,

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