Lady Jane Grey

'Should I, who am young, and in my few years, forsake my faith for the love of life? Nay, God forbid!'
Lady Jane Grey, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Suffolk and great-niece of Henry VIII, was born in 1537 and executed at the age of sixteen and a half by order of Mary Tudor ...
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