Could you imagine being the Queen of England for a week and 2 days? Would it be worth losing your head over? Probably not, but unfortunately, Lady Jane Grey wasn’t given much choice, thanks to the folks she called family. 
Perhaps doomed from the start because of her overly ambitious parents, at least they gave her a decent education before they married her off to Guildford Dudley in a plot for the throne. 
After her cousin Edward dies, Jane is whisked away to the Tower of London to be made queen, only to be quickly condemned and sentenced to death when Mary Tudor steps in to reclaim the crown. Talk about drama! Listen in and make yourself a Greyhound, a tart yet simple combo of vodka and grapefruit juice, as we recall the not-so-happy life of the “Nine Days Queen,” Lady Jane Grey.  

In this episode, you’ll also hear:

Being royal adjacent with shitty parents 

Poor Baby Jane vs. Mary Tudor 

Dying a martyr at the Tower of London


Must-listen moments: 
[00:06:53] It's also worth noting that she was born around the time of Edward, and pretty much from the get-go, her parents were really super ambitious, and they were like, “We're gonna marry her to her cousin Edward so that she can be queen one day.” 
[00:32:37] So Mary is gathering support; she's BFFs with Spain, she's BFFs with Rome. And also, all of the people knew her, and it became apparent to Jane's military advisors that they were not gonna be able to get the peasants to start a revolution because they knew who Mary was before they knew who any of these other people were.
[00:40:25] I think the last words that she spoke were from the New Testament that said, “God into thy hands, I commend my spirit.” That totally relays the fact that she thought she was a f***ing martyr and that was what she was dying for. 

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