Lady Jane Grey was very intellectual and held spiritual beliefs that were far beyond the comprehension of her family members. Lady Jane studied the philosophies of Plato and Socrates from text books written in Greek. This was probably where she first gained her knowledge of spiritual existence and thus, started her search for truth. Jane was intrigued by a quote by Plato, written in Greek, which she translated as, “The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible (unseen)… but there arriving, she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.” If Jane was alive today she would be considered an awakened truth seeker. She was not going to be one of the sheep of her day; instead she stubbornly stuck to her own opinions and inclinations. Jane showed little interest in hunting, gambling, and other family pastimes. She saw these all as distractions to hide from us the true reality of our purpose. In essence, Jane saw this physical world as not the true reality, but merely a learning experience to develop before passing into the invisible world, as described by Plato.
WisdomShared Cheyenne - poor girl, she is only 15! She didnt want to be a queen, even said the throne was rightfully Queen Mary's, forced to be a Queen. Forced to be executed. Poor child!. Not easy to be a royal .
On this day 12 Feb in 1554, 466 years ago Lady Jane Grey was executed by Queen Mary I ('Bloody Mary'), her crime not denouncing her faith and belief in salvation by grace alone. She wrote the following letter to her sister in the back of her Greek New Testament the night before she was executed. "I have here sent you, my dear sister Katherine, a book, which although it be not outwardly trimmed with gold, or the curious embroidery of the artfulness needles, yet inwardly it is more worth than all the precious mines which the vast world can boast of: it is the book, my only best, and best loved sister, of the law of the Lord: it is the Testament and last will, which he bequeathed unto us wretches and wretched sinners, which shall lead you to the path of eternal joy... .. My good sister, once more again let me entreat thee to learn to die; deny the world, defy the devil, and despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord: be penitent for your sins, and yet despair not; be strong in faith, yet presume not; and desire with St. Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ, with whom, even in death there is life... ... Now as touching my death, rejoice as I do, my dearest sister, that I shall be delivered of this corruption, and put on incorruption: for I am assured that I shall, for losing of a mortal life, win one that is immortal, joyful, and everlasting."
The Tudor era is the most chaotic time in England's history. There are many innocent people who were killed because of greed for power and religious fanaticism.
and i know now the spirits of those grid people who killed innocents are now suffering in hell..but its to late to ask forgiveness now at our time we human needs to learned a lesson from the past...i hope human will learned a lesson
@@suzannesmith2204 she would have been as Mary I felt sorry for her and that she was only used as a tool. the thing that made her sign Jane's death warrant was what Jane's father did that scared the shit out of Mary and felt that executing her is the only answer ;
Queen Mary did pardon her and her young husband......but when Jane father joined the rebellion, and Marys suitor, Prince Philip and his father and the Spanish ambassador refused to let him come to England for the marriage to go ahead, because they were afraid of him being assassinated, unless Mary had all the traitors executed, she finally accepted they had to go and signed the death warrants.
It’s interesting... so many people thought the hidden art of this woman, and the recording of her last actions and words upon execution were a glamorized myth... because there “was no way someone could be that kind, innocent, intelligent, and forgiving”.... But surprisingly it was true. It’s sad England lost a queen they could have had... because of greed, superstition, and pride.
yes in those times they were raised with certain stoic calm types of personas and were used to the dangers of the era especially in the barbaric tudor court lol
Poor girl . Just tragic. One of the few monarchs in history that I feel so sad about . RIP Jane . You and your sisters are at peace and away from your horrible hag of a mother . She treated you all with a cruelty which none of you deserved .
WisdomShared Cheyenne Sadly it's a common story world wide past and present of young women and girls from the upper classes being a gateway for power for their families .
Hannah Dyson Janes mother wasn’t as horrible as history has lead everyone to believe. Ambitious most likely, but there’s no evidence she was cruel towards Jane.
@@idontgiveafaboutyou I wish that were true , but from all acounts I can find is that Frances was cruel even for the time period . One of her daughters had a disability and suffered her wrath the most . The sister who survived both of them wasnt a healthy individual. Having said that Frances herself may have been a victim of an abusive mother from what I have read . Mary and Elizabeth Tudor took no joy from her death . They more than likley saw themselves in her as their father was cruel toward them as well.
I don't think any of tbe queens from this time deserved what happened to them. Not Queen Catherine of Spain, not Anne Boleyn, not Catherine Howard, and not Jane Grey. They were victims of a patriarchal system and religious fanaticism.
@@MissyRose94 PURE AND HARD TRUTH. RELIGION IS NOT FOR ME A SYNONYM OF MORALITY, BUT ETHICS. LUCKY WE LIVE IN TIMES WHEN THE LIGHT OF ENLIGHTENMENT RULES
@@ryeryeryerye Sorry to reply to you so very late I just saw this comment. It wasn't really Anne's fault it's Henry's fault he couldn't keep it in his pants. Anne was just as a victim as the other wives, she was manipulated by Henry so many times and died from false accusations. Henry did all the damage to all of his children especially Mary.
I feel like they should have used a 15 year old actress, to make it more heart wrenching and real, after all, that is the age she was, did you know that queen mary did not want to execute her cousin, but she was forced by her council to prevent protestant rebellion, she became worse later on but still!
You are a fool if you look at the past with the eyes of the present. 500 years ago life expectancy was of 35 for women, which means that by the age of 16 she was an adult and old enough to marry and bear children. Dont be so daft!
I have a more heartwarming fact. Lady Jane and Catherine Parr where very close, as before Lady Jane became queen she was shipped of there and Parr taught her how to love fancy clothes and hair and taught her how to love music. And when Jane came back to the palace after Parr passed, she stated in didn’t feel the same.
Little is known about her sister Catherine Grey, who married without the consent of Elizabeth I, was imprisoned while pregnant. Had two children in the tower of London. Her husband was also imprisoned like her. Once released Elizabeth seperated the couple and the children so they never saw each other again. Crazy!
This seems to have been a common behavior in those times: parents using their children to gain access to the throne. Ann Boleyn's father did the same thing and paid a similar price.
In those days, children in the upper and royal classes were pawns on their parents' chessboard, played for power, wealth, prestige and ambition. The higher up the children were in the social class, the better pawns they were to play, especially in the royal courts. They were also the ones most at risk of falling, particularly if they were played too close to the throne.
Every time I see the painting "The execution of Lady Jane Gray" by Paul Delaroche in the National Gallery in London, I have tears in my eyes. It's very moving. The granddaughter of king Henry VII - HM Queen Jane Grey - so young and so smart person (intellectual and polyglot).
Moving yes, but an accurate depiction? J Stephan Edwards, the world's leading authority on Lady Jane Grey, has pointed out that the only thing that is vagely credible about it is the straw on the ground! Delaroche portrays her as a beautiful, innocent young girl, but there is evidence that she her appearance was rather different - and not in a good way; and as for innocent, Jane Grey was by all accounts every bit as much of a religious bigot as her rival Mary Tudor; even when she was imprisoned in the Tower, Jane was foolish enough to shower invective on the Catholic faith in a letter to one of her former tutors - not a clever thing to do with Mary the first of England on the throne! Her intransigence and hot-headedness undoubtedly contributed to her fate, so in this respect she could be said to be the architect of her own demise.
@@idontgiveafaboutyou thats basically how most murderers are born; from the world they were brought into or how they were treated young. She wasn't perfect, but she went to extremes to prove her power, putting many to their death simply because of what some believed. She was honestly at war with her past than anything. Elizabeth's amazing upcoming at least undid the damage and brought civilization forward through the golden age, though she wasn't perfect either of course. But that was royal life in those times.
I believe her coronation (idk how to spell it) was on her 16th birthday, and katheryn howard was between 17 and 19 when she was executed Not much of a difference
Jane Grey was only 16《her dob was October 1537》and her loveable dearest husband Lord Guildford Dudley was 18/19(dob was 1535).Both love birds are united in heaven forever
The 3 Beheaded Queens 💚Anne Boleyn💚 “the temptress” 💖Katherine Howard 💖”the forgotten queen” 💜Lady Jane Grey 💜”the nine days queen” May there Souls forever rest in beautiful peace
All three Grey sisters (Jane, Katherine and Mary) led tragic lives and bad ends because of their proximity to the English throne and their immediate cousins’ failure to bear heirs to carry on the dynasty (which would have made the Grey sisters no threat to them). No happiness for any of them, poor girls.
They were such religions fanatics-some of them hearing Mass several times a day (that’s ‘cra-cra)-and when they knew there was no longer a chance to get out of it, they resigned themselves. The only one I remember having a particularly bad time of it was Jane’s involuntary husband, Guildford. He requested to see Jane one last time in jail, but she sent back a message telling him to buck up and face it.
The Nine Days Queen was pronounced monarch on July 10th, 1553. Lady Jane Grey was Henry VIII’s great-niece. She was born in the same month in 1537 as his son and successor, Edward VI, and her ambitious parents, hoping to marry her to Edward one day, paid special attention to her education and brought her up a convinced Protestant. A bookish intellectual, she was quite unable to cope with the real world and with being a pawn on the political chessboard. It was an extremely dangerous chessboard. The virtual dictator of England under the sickly young Edward was John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. By 1553 Edward was clearly unlikely to live much longer. Northumberland knew that if Edward’s sisters Mary or Elizabeth took the crown, his days in power would be over and Mary would restore Roman Catholicism. He decided to put his own family on the throne and in May he had the fifteen-year-old Jane married, against her will, to his fourth son, Lord Guilford Dudley, who was about the same age. Jane went straight back to her parents, but as the King grew weaker, Northumberland ordered the marriage to be consummated, and it was. Northumberland persuaded the dying Edward to declare Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate and transfer the succession to the Lady Jane. The royal council, which viewed Northumberland as mice do a cat, accepted the decision, with misgivings. Jane was told, but apparently did not take it in. Mary and Elizabeth were summoned to the dying king’s side at Greenwich, where they could most easily be neutralised. Mary set out, but the shrewd Elizabeth took to her bed and said that she was ill. Edward died on July 6th. Mary, on her way to Greenwich, was warned of the trap and rode pell mell for Norfolk. Elizabeth stayed in bed. The King’s death was kept quiet and on July 9th Jane was taken to Northumberland’s mansion outside London, Syon House at Isleworth, where the Duke, her husband and her parents were waiting with members of the council, who to her surprise treated her with immense deference. Northumberland announced that she was queen and she fainted before, with the utmost reluctance, accepting the throne ‘if what has been given to me is lawfully mine’. The following day she was proclaimed by heralds with flourishes of trumpets at various places in London, to the stony disapproval of the citizens. One man who incautiously said the Lady Mary had the better right had his ears cut off. In the afternoon Jane arrived by barge at the Tower, tried on the royal crown, which made her feel faint again, and had a blazing row with her husband and his mother when she said she would not make him king. The banquet that evening was spoiled by the arrival of a letter from Mary to the council firmly asserting her right to the throne and demanding immediate support. Jane continued going through the motions as queen in the Tower, but Northumberland had miscalculated badly. The Lady Mary was well liked (she had not burned anyone yet) and he was not. Mary’s support grew and she gathered a sizeable army, while Northumberland’s men deserted. So did the council in London. By July 18th only three of them - including Jane’s father - remained loyal to Northumberland. The others left the Tower on the improbable excuse of urgently needing to talk to the French ambassador and had the lord mayor of London proclaim Mary next day. Her father told Jane she was no longer queen and she said she was delighted to hear it and could she go home, please? Poor Jane had been queen for nine days and there was no question of going home. She was held prisoner in the Tower while Northumberland was arrested and her parents hastily made their peace with Mary. Elizabeth left her bed of sickness and arrived in London on the 29th to greet the triumphant Mary, who reached Aldgate on August 3rd as trumpets blared, cannon boomed, bells rang and citizens cheered themselves hoarse. Northumberland was executed for high treason three weeks later. Jane was considerately treated in the Tower, but when her father witlessly joined Sir Thomas Wyatt’s rebellion in January, Jane was considered too dangerous a focus of plots to be allowed to live. She and her husband went to the block on February 12th, 1554. She was sixteen years old.
Jane would definitely have had her hair put up/under a coif and not like this. Not just because she was married and as such wouldn't wear her hair loose but bc baring her neck would make it easier for the executioner to hit his mark, thus sparing her quite a bit of agony. (Anne Boleyn had her hair up under a coif as well for this reason) So no, no melodramatic flowing tresses OR white undergarments like on that famous painting, pretty though it may be.
I thought the same. Also (unlike in the famous painting upon which this dramatized scene is presumably based), she was executed on Tower Green, not in some dingy cellar. She did, however, have difficulty finding the block once she was blindfolded and, when it looked as if she was about to lose her composure, had to be guided towards it, as shown here.
It was a necessity not to impede either the axe or the sword. A dress would be loose about the shoulders as fabric could get in the way. A man’s shirt would be loosened and his shoulders bared.
The ACTRESS is beautiful, I agree, but it is customary for documentary and filmmakers to be flattering in their portrayals of historical figures. Only one portrait of Jane Grey exists, to the best of my knowledge. It was painted some fifty years after her death by someone who knew her. It is in Syon House in West London, and if it is anything like accurate, then it is clear Jane was rather plain and certainly not the beauty depicted here.
Lord Guildford Dudley and Lady Jane Dudley(Lady Jane Grey) died within 1 hour. First her dearest husband, than she was executed. Both reunited in afterlife
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The touching scene of her searching for the block never happened and wasn't made up until 100 years after her death. They placed them right in front of the block so there was no need to search for it.
This depiction seems to be based on a historical painting by Paul Delaroche. They got the costumes mostly right, except for the executioner who wears a red cap in the painting. Bravo
Did ever Henry 8 wept for his illegitimate son (Henry Fitzroy)demise? I think he was too busy making love with Jane Seymour and hoping for a male legitimate child. Ain't Henry Fitzroy and Mary Fitzroy(Lady Mary Howard) love story more romantic, pure and divine? She turned down offers of remarriages. So much strong and long bond, such higher spiritual attachment she had, it much more beyond flesh love. Untold and unsung love story. Henry 8 does not had any shame, he married Catherine Howard who was younger than his daughter Mary, son Henry Fitzroy and daughter in law Mary Howard. He had many mistresses too. His daughter in law was attached to one of his mistress
Lady Mary, had awaited her turn to the crown all her life. She was serious, she had never married, she was well liked and respected; lady Gray should have known that a true princess born of nobility and rank could not have been declared a bastard by her sickly step brother so easily, who by the way, had not, the noble lineage of Mary, since he was born from a lady in waiting, while Mary, daughter of Catherine, (who never accepted the divorce from Henry), came from the powerful Spanish royal family... She was the only legitimate heir to the throne for being the first born of the king. Lady Gray, paid for her family ambitions but also for her own inability to see the perils of going against the most qualified contender.
Imagine if she was never killed by Mary and her and gilford were happy and imagine if she did not die by old age under Elizabeth reign and she became queen of England in 1603 how would England have been what would have happened if she was queen
@@WisdomKeeper11 “It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.” Thomas Paine
even in the old times people are commited sins thats why now we suffer because of what the humans did..i hope one day god hear our prayer to end this pandemic
i dont know what types of producers and casting agents they use for these historical series but lady jane grey had a more innocent small heart shaped soft cherub type features yet they use an actress with square faced angular older type facial features.....they really dont seem to know what they are doing.....i felt totally unmoved
The forgotten illegitimate daughter in law of Henry 8. Mary Fitzroy(formerly known as Lady Mary Howard), duchess of Richmond and Somerset. Born:1519 and died 7/12/1557.Wife of HENRY Fitzroy(illegitimate son of Henry 8 and Elizabeth Blount). Henry Fitzroy(15/6/1519…23/7/1536).She was 1st cousins to both her stepmothers in law (Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard) and 2nd cousin to her stepmother in law Jane Seymour. Mary Fitzroy(the forgotten daughter in law of Henry 8)never married nor became mistress. She sacrificed her whole life . She is a epitome of sacrifice. She was pious woman whom this corrupted sex maniac new generations will never understand.
What an extraordinary performance this beautiful young Actress did in creating her own way of portraying Queen Jane Grey. Is this a Movie, if so, then where can I purchase this Movie?
I wish that I owned a Book about Queen Jane Grey, l really would love to read her amazing but sad Story, l'm so happy that someone wanted and went ahead in writing her Story, that took courage and bravery because l'm very sure that she wasn't popular with the English People back in her Day.
No, it is just a short film which shows the final moments of Lady Jane Grey leading up to her execution, starring Rebecca Pearce and produced by Samuel Harrison.
@@WisdomKeeper11 thank you so much for your recommendation on a Author that wrote a Book about Queen Jane Grey, l love her Story so very much she, for some reason she encourages me to be strong in my Faith as well, no matter what the consequences would be.
I do not pretend to justify her actions but, let's be frank, Mary acted like a woman of her time who believed that she should reinstate the one true Catholic faith, that I remember her brother Edward VI and her father Henry VIII were not very merciful during the Pilgrimage of Grace and the War of the Prayer Books. Let us not forget that Mary was declared a bastard, after declaring, unjustly, the nullity of the marriage with her mother, Catherine of Aragon, with her father, Henry VIII, which not only caused the exile of her mother to Kimbolton where she died, but also Mary was demoted to work as a maid to her stepsister Elizabeth and, only thanks to the intervention of Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr, was she able to reconcile with her father and be reinstated in the act of succession. The troubles she suffered turned her into a resentful and bad-tempered old woman, who only found comfort in prayer, in her friendships and in entertainment such as card games. Her reign was short and disastrous, she could not have children, lived a loveless marriage and died of a tumor in the pituitary gland. Deep down, even though I'm grossed out by what she did to Jane and deserves to be reprimanded, I can't help but feel some pity for her.
Yes , some people could have their hair black but why? Simple , some brittish could marry an Indian woman and they leave descendants (sorry if you didn’t understand but I tried to explain)
Even worse than a 16yrs old being executed... Is hearing her talking about god and religion moments before. "Hey, why don't we sprinkle hypocrisyon top of our disgusting crimes ?"
Lady Jane Grey was very intellectual and held spiritual beliefs that were far beyond the comprehension of her family members.
Lady Jane studied the philosophies of Plato and Socrates from text books written in Greek. This was probably where she first gained her knowledge of spiritual existence and thus, started her search for truth.
Jane was intrigued by a quote by Plato, written in Greek, which she translated as, “The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible (unseen)… but there arriving, she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.”
If Jane was alive today she would be considered an awakened truth seeker. She was not going to be one of the sheep of her day; instead she stubbornly stuck to her own opinions and inclinations.
Jane showed little interest in hunting, gambling, and other family pastimes. She saw these all as distractions to hide from us the true reality of our purpose.
In essence, Jane saw this physical world as not the true reality, but merely a learning experience to develop before passing into the invisible world, as described by Plato.
WisdomShared Cheyenne Thanks for the information, I always wanted to know who Lady Jane was. Greetings from Mexico
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WisdomShared Cheyenne - poor girl, she is only 15! She didnt want to be a queen, even said the throne was rightfully Queen Mary's, forced to be a Queen. Forced to be executed. Poor child!. Not easy to be a royal .
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On this day 12 Feb in 1554, 466 years ago Lady Jane Grey was executed by Queen Mary I ('Bloody Mary'), her crime not denouncing her faith and belief in salvation by grace alone.
She wrote the following letter to her sister in the back of her Greek New Testament the night before she was executed.
"I have here sent you, my dear sister Katherine, a book, which although it be not outwardly trimmed with gold, or the curious embroidery of the artfulness needles, yet inwardly it is more worth than all the precious mines which the vast world can boast of: it is the book, my only best, and best loved sister, of the law of the Lord: it is the Testament and last will, which he bequeathed unto us wretches and wretched sinners, which shall lead you to the path of eternal joy...
.. My good sister, once more again let me entreat thee to learn to die; deny the world, defy the devil, and despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord: be penitent for your sins, and yet despair not; be strong in faith, yet presume not; and desire with St. Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ, with whom, even in death there is life...
... Now as touching my death, rejoice as I do, my dearest sister, that I shall be delivered of this corruption, and put on incorruption: for I am assured that I shall, for losing of a mortal life, win one that is immortal, joyful, and everlasting."
The Tudor era is the most chaotic time in England's history. There are many innocent people who were killed because of greed for power and religious fanaticism.
It wasn't just the Tudors, but every era that was chaotic, with wars and divisions.
and i know now the spirits of those grid people who killed innocents are now suffering in hell..but its to late to ask forgiveness now at our time we human needs to learned a lesson from the past...i hope human will learned a lesson
Except for Henry VII, the Tudors were absolutely bloodthirsty.
The Anarchy was considered the worse time in English History. And the Bloodiest Dynasty was the Plantagenets.
@@bgraham928
It's true all of them, with no exception
The men who used Lady Jane for their own political greed should have paid for it. She should've been pardoned.
They were also executed
And what about the woman that killed her?
I 100% agree with you that Queen Jane Grey should've been pardoned, absolutely no questions asked.
@@suzannesmith2204 she would have been as Mary I felt sorry for her and that she was only used as a tool. the thing that made her sign Jane's death warrant was what Jane's father did that scared the shit out of Mary and felt that executing her is the only answer ;
Queen Mary did pardon her and her young husband......but when Jane father joined the rebellion, and Marys suitor, Prince Philip and his father and the Spanish ambassador refused to let him come to England for the marriage to go ahead, because they were afraid of him being assassinated, unless Mary had all the traitors executed, she finally accepted they had to go and signed the death warrants.
It’s interesting... so many people thought the hidden art of this woman, and the recording of her last actions and words upon execution were a glamorized myth... because there “was no way someone could be that kind, innocent, intelligent, and forgiving”....
But surprisingly it was true.
It’s sad England lost a queen they could have had... because of greed, superstition, and pride.
yes in those times they were raised with certain stoic calm types of personas and were used to the dangers of the era especially in the barbaric tudor court lol
Poor girl . Just tragic. One of the few monarchs in history that I feel so sad about .
RIP Jane . You and your sisters are at peace and away from your horrible hag of a mother . She treated you all with a cruelty which none of you deserved .
Yes, brings me to tears all the time... Jane was used and abused by all those who wanted political gain and riches for themselves.
WisdomShared Cheyenne Sadly it's a common story world wide past and present of young women and girls from the upper classes being a gateway for power for their families .
Hannah Dyson Janes mother wasn’t as horrible as history has lead everyone to believe. Ambitious most likely, but there’s no evidence she was cruel towards Jane.
@@idontgiveafaboutyou I wish that were true , but from all acounts I can find is that Frances was cruel even for the time period .
One of her daughters had a disability and suffered her wrath the most . The sister who survived both of them wasnt a healthy individual. Having said that Frances herself may have been a victim of an abusive mother from what I have read .
Mary and Elizabeth Tudor took no joy from her death . They more than likley saw themselves in her as their father was cruel toward them as well.
I pity on Jane and Catherine Howard, both young queens who had there lives stolen away from them RIP Queens =(
I don't think any of tbe queens from this time deserved what happened to them. Not Queen Catherine of Spain, not Anne Boleyn, not Catherine Howard, and not Jane Grey. They were victims of a patriarchal system and religious fanaticism.
Egg
Btw anne boleyn helped mess up Mary Tudor
@@MissyRose94
PURE AND HARD TRUTH. RELIGION IS NOT FOR ME A SYNONYM OF MORALITY, BUT ETHICS.
LUCKY WE LIVE IN TIMES WHEN THE LIGHT OF ENLIGHTENMENT RULES
@@ryeryeryerye Sorry to reply to you so very late I just saw this comment. It wasn't really Anne's fault it's Henry's fault he couldn't keep it in his pants. Anne was just as a victim as the other wives, she was manipulated by Henry so many times and died from false accusations. Henry did all the damage to all of his children especially Mary.
Finally! Something that looks semi accurate and does this young queen justice since Helena Bonham Carter
I feel like they should have used a 15 year old actress, to make it more heart wrenching and real, after all, that is the age she was, did you know that queen mary did not want to execute her cousin, but she was forced by her council to prevent protestant rebellion, she became worse later on but still!
Queen Mary had to chose between her Spanish Prince or lose him if she didn't execute Jane... Love for the Spanish prince sealed Jane's fate. 💕
It is cute the fact that she was buried between Anne and Kathryn
I’m not sure the word you are looking for is cute.
@@graphiquejack :v lol
*bittersweet
It’s a bittersweet fact that she was buried between Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard
@@catherineparr5817 for me it was cute, whatever you want to think :v
She was buried next to Kathryn wasnt she? I didnt think she was in the middle?
It's sad to think that the only danger for a Tudor member was another member.
She was only an innocent child when she was executed! That is a wrong thing to do😡
Helen White um technically Mary executed Jane two get the throne
Hannah Dyson oh
You are a fool if you look at the past with the eyes of the present.
500 years ago life expectancy was of 35 for women, which means that by the age of 16 she was an adult and old enough to marry and bear children. Dont be so daft!
JOAN OF ARC WAS A CHILD AS WELL. THEY BOTH SHOWED COMPOSURE WHILE BEING EXECUTED + BOTH HAD THE SAME FAITH IN GOD. LONG LIVE HOPE, FAITH, + LOVE!
Poor unfortunate soul. How sad. This story makes me feel blue. Makes me cry. RIP Lady Jane Grey with your beloved Guilford.
It was a pleasure to act with such a talented actress. Ernie
I have a more heartwarming fact.
Lady Jane and Catherine Parr where very close, as before Lady Jane became queen she was shipped of there and Parr taught her how to love fancy clothes and hair and taught her how to love music.
And when Jane came back to the palace after Parr passed, she stated in didn’t feel the same.
I love how most of the queens died with such dignity
Little is known about her sister Catherine Grey, who married without the consent of Elizabeth I, was imprisoned while pregnant. Had two children in the tower of London. Her husband was also imprisoned like her. Once released Elizabeth seperated the couple and the children so they never saw each other again.
Crazy!
Really??
This seems to have been a common behavior in those times: parents using their children to gain access to the throne. Ann Boleyn's father did the same thing and paid a similar price.
Uma Bennethum just like Lady Jane Anne Boleyn was a pawn in her fathers idea to gain more power. Thanks to that, both paid the price with their heads.
@@kaylajohns1020 He lost his son also.
In those days, children in the upper and royal classes were pawns on their parents' chessboard, played for power, wealth, prestige and ambition. The higher up the children were in the social class, the better pawns they were to play, especially in the royal courts. They were also the ones most at risk of falling, particularly if they were played too close to the throne.
Every time I see the painting "The execution of Lady Jane Gray" by Paul Delaroche in the National Gallery in London, I have tears in my eyes. It's very moving. The granddaughter of king Henry VII - HM Queen Jane Grey - so young and so smart person (intellectual and polyglot).
Moving yes, but an accurate depiction? J Stephan Edwards, the world's leading authority on Lady Jane Grey, has pointed out that the only thing that is vagely credible about it is the straw on the ground! Delaroche portrays her as a beautiful, innocent young girl, but there is evidence that she her appearance was rather different - and not in a good way; and as for innocent, Jane Grey was by all accounts every bit as much of a religious bigot as her rival Mary Tudor; even when she was imprisoned in the Tower, Jane was foolish enough to shower invective on the Catholic faith in a letter to one of her former tutors - not a clever thing to do with Mary the first of England on the throne! Her intransigence and hot-headedness undoubtedly contributed to her fate, so in this respect she could be said to be the architect of her own demise.
She would have made a much better queen than Mary 1st
Yes, she would :)
Hello Mary was mainly the Queen she was because of how she was treated in her early life
@@idontgiveafaboutyou she ordered people to be hunted down and burned to death. A shitty person is a shitty person
@@idontgiveafaboutyou That doesn't excuse her behavior as an adult.
@@idontgiveafaboutyou thats basically how most murderers are born; from the world they were brought into or how they were treated young. She wasn't perfect, but she went to extremes to prove her power, putting many to their death simply because of what some believed. She was honestly at war with her past than anything.
Elizabeth's amazing upcoming at least undid the damage and brought civilization forward through the golden age, though she wasn't perfect either of course. But that was royal life in those times.
I read she was even more young that Kathryn Howard
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Yep, she was only 16.
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Yea 😔
Katherine was 19 Jane was 16...
I believe her coronation (idk how to spell it) was on her 16th birthday, and katheryn howard was between 17 and 19 when she was executed
Not much of a difference
Even a random bastard does not have the guts to kill a 17 year old girl.
16 year old*
I read the book and if I remember correctly she wasn’t afraid of dying and I loved that
On the evening of her execution, she spent the night practising on putting her head nicely on the block
Yon Slash no that was Catherine Howard. Lady Jane had to ask for help with finding the execution block when it was her turn
@@ellieberry6614 Oh i see.... thanx for the clarification. I got mixed up becoz they're both young at age
She didn't deserve that! That's so sad! ;(
Jane Grey was only 16《her dob was October 1537》and her loveable dearest husband Lord Guildford Dudley was 18/19(dob was 1535).Both love birds are united in heaven forever
The 3 Beheaded Queens
💚Anne Boleyn💚 “the temptress”
💖Katherine Howard 💖”the forgotten queen”
💜Lady Jane Grey 💜”the nine days queen”
May there Souls forever rest in beautiful peace
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Lady Jane Grey was just 16 when this happened. This is truely terrible. Unbelievable.
May she rest in peace. 💐
Lady Jane grey would of been an amazing queen
All three Grey sisters (Jane, Katherine and Mary) led tragic lives and bad ends because of their proximity to the English throne and their immediate cousins’ failure to bear heirs to carry on the dynasty (which would have made the Grey sisters no threat to them). No happiness for any of them, poor girls.
The hair would held up my cap nod bushed off to side
I'm crying 😭😭😭she was so brave
They were such religions fanatics-some of them hearing Mass several times a day (that’s ‘cra-cra)-and when they knew there was no longer a chance to get out of it, they resigned themselves. The only one I remember having a particularly bad time of it was Jane’s involuntary husband, Guildford. He requested to see Jane one last time in jail, but she sent back a message telling him to buck up and face it.
The Nine Days Queen was pronounced monarch on July 10th, 1553.
Lady Jane Grey was Henry VIII’s great-niece. She was born in the same month in 1537 as his son and successor, Edward VI, and her ambitious parents, hoping to marry her to Edward one day, paid special attention to her education and brought her up a convinced Protestant. A bookish intellectual, she was quite unable to cope with the real world and with being a pawn on the political chessboard. It was an extremely dangerous chessboard.
The virtual dictator of England under the sickly young Edward was John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. By 1553 Edward was clearly unlikely to live much longer. Northumberland knew that if Edward’s sisters Mary or Elizabeth took the crown, his days in power would be over and Mary would restore Roman Catholicism. He decided to put his own family on the throne and in May he had the fifteen-year-old Jane married, against her will, to his fourth son, Lord Guilford Dudley, who was about the same age. Jane went straight back to her parents, but as the King grew weaker, Northumberland ordered the marriage to be consummated, and it was.
Northumberland persuaded the dying Edward to declare Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate and transfer the succession to the Lady Jane. The royal council, which viewed Northumberland as mice do a cat, accepted the decision, with misgivings. Jane was told, but apparently did not take it in. Mary and Elizabeth were summoned to the dying king’s side at Greenwich, where they could most easily be neutralised. Mary set out, but the shrewd Elizabeth took to her bed and said that she was ill.
Edward died on July 6th. Mary, on her way to Greenwich, was warned of the trap and rode pell mell for Norfolk. Elizabeth stayed in bed. The King’s death was kept quiet and on July 9th Jane was taken to Northumberland’s mansion outside London, Syon House at Isleworth, where the Duke, her husband and her parents were waiting with members of the council, who to her surprise treated her with immense deference. Northumberland announced that she was queen and she fainted before, with the utmost reluctance, accepting the throne ‘if what has been given to me is lawfully mine’. The following day she was proclaimed by heralds with flourishes of trumpets at various places in London, to the stony disapproval of the citizens. One man who incautiously said the Lady Mary had the better right had his ears cut off.
In the afternoon Jane arrived by barge at the Tower, tried on the royal crown, which made her feel faint again, and had a blazing row with her husband and his mother when she said she would not make him king. The banquet that evening was spoiled by the arrival of a letter from Mary to the council firmly asserting her right to the throne and demanding immediate support.
Jane continued going through the motions as queen in the Tower, but Northumberland had miscalculated badly. The Lady Mary was well liked (she had not burned anyone yet) and he was not. Mary’s support grew and she gathered a sizeable army, while Northumberland’s men deserted. So did the council in London. By July 18th only three of them - including Jane’s father - remained loyal to Northumberland. The others left the Tower on the improbable excuse of urgently needing to talk to the French ambassador and had the lord mayor of London proclaim Mary next day. Her father told Jane she was no longer queen and she said she was delighted to hear it and could she go home, please?
Poor Jane had been queen for nine days and there was no question of going home. She was held prisoner in the Tower while Northumberland was arrested and her parents hastily made their peace with Mary. Elizabeth left her bed of sickness and arrived in London on the 29th to greet the triumphant Mary, who reached Aldgate on August 3rd as trumpets blared, cannon boomed, bells rang and citizens cheered themselves hoarse.
Northumberland was executed for high treason three weeks later. Jane was considerately treated in the Tower, but when her father witlessly joined Sir Thomas Wyatt’s rebellion in January, Jane was considered too dangerous a focus of plots to be allowed to live. She and her husband went to the block on February 12th, 1554. She was sixteen years old.
WisdomShared Cheyenne thank you for sharing.
Jane would definitely have had her hair put up/under a coif and not like this. Not just because she was married and as such wouldn't wear her hair loose but bc baring her neck would make it easier for the executioner to hit his mark, thus sparing her quite a bit of agony. (Anne Boleyn had her hair up under a coif as well for this reason) So no, no melodramatic flowing tresses OR white undergarments like on that famous painting, pretty though it may be.
So did Katherine
But she had her hair in a braided bun then the coif
I thought the same. Also (unlike in the famous painting upon which this dramatized scene is presumably based), she was executed on Tower Green, not in some dingy cellar. She did, however, have difficulty finding the block once she was blindfolded and, when it looked as if she was about to lose her composure, had to be guided towards it, as shown here.
It was a necessity not to impede either the axe or the sword. A dress would be loose about the shoulders as fabric could get in the way. A man’s shirt would be loosened and his shoulders bared.
She's so beautiful ❤❤❤❤
The ACTRESS is beautiful, I agree, but it is customary for documentary and filmmakers to be flattering in their portrayals of historical figures. Only one portrait of Jane Grey exists, to the best of my knowledge. It was painted some fifty years after her death by someone who knew her. It is in Syon House in West London, and if it is anything like accurate, then it is clear Jane was rather plain and certainly not the beauty depicted here.
one of the only people in history I genuinely feel sorry for poor girl... used as a political pawn then abandoned by the same men who used her
On the happy side of this video she went to heaven to live a life in paradise like she has always wanted! 🥰
Lord Guildford Dudley and Lady Jane Dudley(Lady Jane Grey) died within 1 hour. First her dearest husband, than she was executed. Both reunited in afterlife
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Cheyenne yes Unconditional and Irrevocable spiritual love not lust aka materialistic sensual pleasures
@@simantinisinha6604 Real love is the love of selflessness, and the ability to embrace all of creation. 💕 💕
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Love, without thought of self, is love in its highest form. Love is all about seeking expression when it realises its connectedness with all that is. Love is all about recognising its infinite potential. 💕 💕
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Cheyenne love you dear
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Where can i watch this full movie
She is so young
The touching scene of her searching for the block never happened and wasn't made up until 100 years after her death. They placed them right in front of the block so there was no need to search for it.
This depiction seems to be based on a historical painting by Paul Delaroche. They got the costumes mostly right, except for the executioner who wears a red cap in the painting. Bravo
Did ever Henry 8 wept for his illegitimate son (Henry Fitzroy)demise? I think he was too busy making love with Jane Seymour and hoping for a male legitimate child. Ain't Henry Fitzroy and Mary Fitzroy(Lady Mary Howard) love story more romantic, pure and divine? She turned down offers of remarriages. So much strong and long bond, such higher spiritual attachment she had, it much more beyond flesh love. Untold and unsung love story. Henry 8 does not had any shame, he married Catherine Howard who was younger than his daughter Mary, son Henry Fitzroy and daughter in law Mary Howard. He had many mistresses too. His daughter in law was attached to one of his mistress
SHES SO PRETTY😪😪😪
This just makes me ANGRY HOW DID SHE DESERVE THAT
Lady Mary, had awaited her turn to the crown all her life.
She was serious, she had never married, she was well liked and respected; lady Gray should have known that a true princess born of nobility and rank could not have been declared a bastard by her sickly step brother so easily, who by the way, had not, the noble lineage of Mary, since he was born from a lady in waiting, while Mary, daughter of Catherine, (who never accepted the divorce from Henry), came from the powerful Spanish royal family...
She was the only legitimate heir to the throne for being the first born of the king.
Lady Gray, paid for her family ambitions but also for her own inability to see the perils of going against the most qualified contender.
Angela Bender :) Lady Jane had no choice and was fed to the wolves.
WisdomShared Cheyenne
She was too young and into religion...
Mary was into religion and politics
Elizabeth only into politics
Faith Cook's book "Lady Jane Grey: Nine Day Queen of England" is well worth reading for its insight into Jane and her life.
Imagine if she was never killed by Mary and her and gilford were happy and imagine if she did not die by old age under Elizabeth reign and she became queen of England in 1603 how would England have been what would have happened if she was queen
Jane should have been pardoned
Protestant and Catholicism share the belief of Christianity. So why was she put to death because of another form of the religion?
This is the crazy thing about religion.
For Roman Catholic Church it only exists a true faith, another is heresy. That's all.
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“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
Thomas Paine
Lady Jane Gray was the most innocet of executed queens in my opinion 😢😭
even in the old times people are commited sins thats why now we suffer because of what the humans did..i hope one day god hear our prayer to end this pandemic
She is in heaven because she believed in Jesus !
Yes! 🖤
How I imagine Lady Jane Grey to look.
Yes, I imagine her this way too :)
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i dont know what types of producers and casting agents they use for these historical series but lady jane grey had a more innocent small heart shaped soft cherub type features yet they use an actress with square faced angular older type facial features.....they really dont seem to know what they are doing.....i felt totally unmoved
Fair play . She was very calm when they lopped off her noggin .whalop .have it .
The forgotten illegitimate daughter in law of Henry 8. Mary Fitzroy(formerly known as Lady Mary Howard), duchess of Richmond and Somerset. Born:1519 and died 7/12/1557.Wife of HENRY Fitzroy(illegitimate son of Henry 8 and Elizabeth Blount). Henry Fitzroy(15/6/1519…23/7/1536).She was 1st cousins to both her stepmothers in law (Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard) and 2nd cousin to her stepmother in law Jane Seymour. Mary Fitzroy(the forgotten daughter in law of Henry 8)never married nor became mistress. She sacrificed her whole life . She is a epitome of sacrifice. She was pious woman whom this corrupted sex maniac new generations will never understand.
Isn't the beginning from Anne Boleyn's execution?
Hallee Rose I was thinking the exact same
I think so
Sorry.sorry.sorry poor girl.
Poor Jane. Mary did this just for became a Queen died at the age 16..
is real lady Jane gray
What an extraordinary performance this beautiful young Actress did in creating her own way of portraying Queen Jane Grey. Is this a Movie, if so, then where can I purchase this Movie?
I wish that I owned a Book about Queen Jane Grey, l really would love to read her amazing but sad Story, l'm so happy that someone wanted and went ahead in writing her Story, that took courage and bravery because l'm very sure that she wasn't popular with the English People back in her Day.
No, it is just a short film which shows the final moments of Lady Jane Grey leading up to her execution, starring Rebecca Pearce and produced by Samuel Harrison.
@@suzannesmith2204 I would recommend a book by A.C.H.Smith called Lady Jane.
@@WisdomKeeper11 thank you so much for your recommendation on a Author that wrote a Book about Queen Jane Grey, l love her Story so very much she, for some reason she encourages me to be strong in my Faith as well, no matter what the consequences would be.
Where can I find his, l'm assuming it's a Male Author, Book?
Whats the name of movie ??
Mass ignorant people are scary
She ruled England for 9 days. Until the executioner did the same as he did Anne Boleyn and Katharine Howard. Did he?
sad
She is my ancestor
That's odd since she didn't have any children.
@@JeffGeorge666 lol. im dead 😂
I wish she could just live a happy life😒
This is very bad iam crying now 😢😢
The ruins of her family home can be seen. Bradgate Park ruins, Leicestershire
言葉はわからないけど泣きました。虚しいです。
Praise the Lord
So sad...
これ知ってる！怖い絵画のやつでしょ！
ジェーン・グレイ可哀想😭
何も悪いことしてないのに...
処刑されなければ、ならなかったなんて。
あなたが正しい
What movie is this from? I know Helena Bonham Carter played Jane in one move.
This was a short film written by Samuel Harrison which shows the final moments of Lady Jane Grey leading up to her execution.
So sad
A young life sadly taken away due to religion, power and politics.
Barry Sabahat - It truly is.
Bloody Mary you are so evil and wicked
She was torn between losing her Spanish sweet heart prince or losing her cousin Jane to the axe!!! She chose her prince!!!
She in hell
Atiya Hunt yes I'm tormenting her as we speak 🔥 jk.
I do not pretend to justify her actions but, let's be frank, Mary acted like a woman of her time who believed that she should reinstate the one true Catholic faith, that I remember her brother Edward VI and her father Henry VIII were not very merciful during the Pilgrimage of Grace and the War of the Prayer Books.
Let us not forget that Mary was declared a bastard, after declaring, unjustly, the nullity of the marriage with her mother, Catherine of Aragon, with her father, Henry VIII, which not only caused the exile of her mother to Kimbolton where she died, but also Mary was demoted to work as a maid to her stepsister Elizabeth and, only thanks to the intervention of Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr, was she able to reconcile with her father and be reinstated in the act of succession.
The troubles she suffered turned her into a resentful and bad-tempered old woman, who only found comfort in prayer, in her friendships and in entertainment such as card games.
Her reign was short and disastrous, she could not have children, lived a loveless marriage and died of a tumor in the pituitary gland.
Deep down, even though I'm grossed out by what she did to Jane and deserves to be reprimanded, I can't help but feel some pity for her.
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Of course, she chose her happiness for once in her life.
It didn't last long.
Not to be rude or anything but this actor just copied the movie. It was really good but an original idea would've been better
Funnily enough, the actor had/has never seen the movie!
Like those films
If i'm the executioner, i will ask my Majesty to forgive me. Because i can't kill her with my own hands and to see her die chopping his head off..🥺😔
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悲しすぎる犠牲者です
彼女に何の罪があったんでしょうか？
怖い絵展から来た人
😢😢😢😢😢
People don’t have their hair like that back then wtf
Obviously you were there back then to verify this??????
WisdomShared Cheyenne there’s this thing called “written history” and “paintings”
Yes , some people could have their hair black but why? Simple , some brittish could marry an Indian woman and they leave descendants (sorry if you didn’t understand but I tried to explain)
вlυєвєяяιєѕ уσgυят I was talking about the guy’s hairstyle.
r a l i ‘ i x a v i e r o should’ve clarified earlier but you got a point tho
Why
С распущенными волосами никого не казнили(
Lady jane is so good and I really hate mary
Even worse than a 16yrs old being executed... Is hearing her talking about god and religion moments before.
"Hey, why don't we sprinkle hypocrisyon top of our disgusting crimes ?"