Married to Lord Guilford Dudley. Her husband’s father persuaded the dying Edward VI to declare his two sisters Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate, which left Jane, on Edward's death, the queen. Mary and her supporters were having none of this and within days Mary was proclaimed queen. Dudley was beheaded at Tower Hill shortly followed by Jane on Tower Green.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Lady Jane Grey
Commemorated ati
Tower of London execution site
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Tower of London execution site - c.1910
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Other Subjects
Sir Harry Vane (the younger)
Statesman. Born Debden. As a Protestant dissenter he failed to secure the advancements at the King's court for which he had hoped and so set off to the newly established Massachusetts where he was ...
Lyon Cawch
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
Robert Salte
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
Lord Balmerino
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold.
Tyburn tree
The first recorded execution here was the hanging of the champion of London's poor, William Fitz Osbern in 1196. Back then there may have been a real tree but in 1571 the 'Tyburn Tree' was erected....