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Innocent Traitor
by Alison Weir
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Lady Jane Grey grows up as an intelligent, devout Protestant girl in a family determined to use her royal blood for advancement. After Edward VI’s death, powerful men place the reluctant teenager on the English throne in an attempt to prevent the Catholic Mary Tudor from succeeding. Jane’s brief reign collapses within days, leaving her imprisoned in the Tower and dependent on the mercy of a queen whose position remains insecure. Told through several viewpoints, the novel follows Jane from a harsh childhood and arranged marriage to the succession crisis of 1553 and its fatal aftermath. It portrays her not as an ambitious usurper, but as a gifted young woman trapped by faith, family and dynastic politics.
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Catherine Parr1512–1548 Mary I1516–1558 Edward VI1537–1553 Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley1508–1549 Elizabeth I1533–1603 Lady Jane Grey1537–1554 John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland1504–1553 Lord Guildford Dudley1535–1554 Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk1517–1554 Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk1517–1559
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