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‘\u2018How long do I have?\u2019 I force a laugh.
\n\u2018Not long,\u2019 he says very quietly. \u2018They have confirmed your sentence of death. You are to be beheaded tomorrow. We don\u2019t have long at all.\u2019<\/p>\n
Jane Grey was Queen of England for nine days. Using her position as cousin to the deceased king, her father and his conspirators put her on the throne ahead of the king\u2019s half-sister Mary, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her crown and locked Jane in the Tower. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner\u2019s block. There Jane turned her father\u2019s greedy, failed grab for power into her own brave and tragic martyrdom.<\/p>\n
\u2018Learn you to die\u2019 is the advice that Jane gives in a letter to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and find love. But her lineage makes her a threat to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and, when Mary dies, to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a potential royal heir before she does. So when Katherine\u2019s secret marriage is revealed by her pregnancy, she too must go to the Tower.<\/p>\n
\u2018Farewell, my sister,\u2019 writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary finds it easy to keep secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth\u2019s suspicious glare. After watching her sisters defy the queen, Mary is aware of her own perilous position as a possible heir to the throne. But she is determined to command her own destiny and be the last Tudor to risk her life in matching wits with her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Elizabeth.’<\/p>\n
From Simon and Schuster UK<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n To enter the competition<\/b><\/p>\n Email me at Ljgcompetition at yahoo.co.uk. Replace \u2018at\u2019 with @. Put Day 7 in the Subject line.<\/p>\n The competition ends at midnight (UK time) on Sunday 12th September.<\/p>\n The winner will be selected at random.<\/p>\n Good luck!<\/p>\n To celebrate 20 years of my website, I am running a 9 Day Giveaway on key dates throughout the year that relate to Lady Jane. 29th August 1553 \u2013 The author of \u2018The Chronicle of Queen Jane etc\u2019 dines with … Continue reading
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