Lady Jane Grey: The Tragic Nine Day Queen

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For nine days in 1553, Lady Jane Grey claimed the thrones of England and Ireland, an impertinence that caused her to be executed for high treason in February, 1554. Jane was a descendant of King Henry VII, a first cousin once removed of Elizabeth I, Mary I, and King Edward VI, and a grandniece of their collective father, King Henry VIII. By right of the last will and testament of King Edward VI, she was the successor to the British throne, largely because her Protestant faith made her a less disagreeable Monarch than the Catholic Mary, at least to British Protestants of the day.
At first, the Privy Council of England agreed with her accession and supported her claim to the throne, but in less than two weeks, political support for Mary Tudor led to her being proclaimed Queen, and Jane’s confinement in the Tower of London as a treasonous usurper. Lady Jane’s story, like many surrounding the English monarchy of the time, is one of intrigue, treachery, betrayal, religious intolerance, fear of Spanish power, and ultimately, royally sanctioned murder.
In that, it is not unlike many tales which swirl around the British Monarchy and its long and complicated history. Tales of hooded executioners, imprisonments in the Tower of London, ministers both loyal and duplicitous, secret missions, and public executions are all part of the history of the monarchy. Lady Jane’s tale is a relatively small part of that history. Yet, it is still worth telling.
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@michellecrocker2485 3 месяца назад

You gotta feel sorry for Jane here. Being queen was obviously everyone else’s idea not hers. She was like her cousins, A pawn of her family

@TihetrisWeathersby 3 месяца назад

Ah Tudor England, That time period where even 15 year old girls lost their heads

@chriswalther7329 3 месяца назад

Seemed like a strange time to live

@theresalaux5655 3 месяца назад

I wouldnt want to live back then !😮@chriswalther7329

@thevanillagamer9254 3 месяца назад

Well... she was being passed around more than the Mashed Potatoes at Thanksgiving Dinner.

@lisamariepocza4377 3 месяца назад

Worse, they were often married off to men twice their age or more.

@lyamainu 2 месяца назад

@@lisamariepocza4377 Not often. It did happen, of course, but it was far from the norm. The average age of marriage for a woman was early twenties, and men mid twenties.

@jackvos8047 3 месяца назад

Samuel Johnson didn't publish the first English dictionary until 1755. Prior to this all spelling variations were correct, meaning Jane didn't misspell Queen as it wasn't standardised during her lifetime.

@AshNight1214 3 месяца назад

I was going to say the same thing! Normally, I wouldn't make a fuss, but Karl made such a big deal out of it haha

@pyromania1018 Месяц назад

Aside from his abolitionist views, Dr. Johnson was quite batty. He was so obsessed with that dictionary that he ignored his wife's affairs and even committed murder. And then the original dictionary was destroyed by some idiot named Baldrick.

@MsFluffySama 3 месяца назад

Every time I hear her story i get angry on her behalf. I even feel for Mary here, cause in the end if Jane's family had behaved she might have lived longer as it seems Mary didn't want to order her death. But there were so many power hungry idiots around Jane, Poor thing...

@Jayjay-qe6um 3 месяца назад

"The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir." -- Jane Grey

@TihetrisWeathersby 3 месяца назад

Lady Jane is a very interesting topic, Some says her parents manipulated her with help from the Duke of Northumberland, She was just just a girl who loved books.

@kaltaron1284 3 месяца назад

random person: "History can't be as incestuous and full of intrigue as Game of Thrones". historians: "Oh sweet summer child."

@--enyo-- 3 месяца назад

Meanwhile in Ancient Egypt: “Hold my beer” At least Henry only thought about marrying Henry Fitzroy to Mary, he didn’t actually go through with it.

@debbylou5729 2 месяца назад

She had no desire to be Queen. The Dudley’s wanted power and dragged her into it. I’ve even read that her marriage was a ‘love match’. Her husband wasn’t even interested

@laurabrowning7973 3 месяца назад

Back in that time period, people even spelled their own names differently. For example, Boleyn and Bullen were used interchangeably sometimes within the same document or sentence - by the Boleyn family as well as other people. So, spelling 'Queen' in a different way does not reflect lack of education or intelligence.

@danielsantiagourtado3430 3 месяца назад

Suggestion karl! Please do Richard III The last Plantagenet king of england

@user-bh1gu4qz8o 3 месяца назад

British history doesn’t “suck” it’s interesting and complicated

@danielsantiagourtado3430 3 месяца назад

Love your work karl! Please stay as host!😊😊😊

@MR2Davjohn 3 месяца назад

Gilbert Dudley was Lord Guildford Dudley, son of Sir John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.

@benjaminsmith9823 2 месяца назад

Great episode Karl! Thanks guys!

@jacobprice2579 2 месяца назад

I actually love about a 20 minute walk from the house where Lady Jane grew up in Bradgate Park. She’s a bit of a local legend here but sadly far less known in the rest of the country.

@musiclover01ization 3 месяца назад

This was a great video. Keep up the good work, Karl.

@bethanywicker8990 3 месяца назад

Henry 's will only made Jane an heir to the throne of his so and both his daughters took the throne and died without heirs. It was Edward not Henry who skipped Mary and Elizabeth and made Jane his heir.

@SafetySpooon 3 месяца назад

Yes, because he had no way of excluding Mary that didn't exclude elizabeth, so he had to pass over both of them.

@tripsaplenty1227 Месяц назад

Edward was a male. Females were put on the bottom of the list of succession after the males. I think this legally changed to any gender by order of birth in the 20th century.

@BTScriviner Месяц назад

@@SafetySpooonDo you mean Edward? He wanted to exclude both his sisters because he did not believe in women rulers and they were both illegitimate. Lady Jane was of the same fanatical Protestantism as Edward, which also appealed to him.

@bucko453 3 месяца назад

Any chance for anne boleyn?

@jacobotha8349 3 месяца назад

Please do a biography on adam smith the father of economics

@jamesswindley9599 2 месяца назад

We need to stop calling her LADY Jane Grey. She was crowned and coronated as a QUEEN. She at least deserves that recognition and respect.

@charlottehardy822 3 месяца назад

Hunsdon is in Hertfordshire which last I checked was in East Anglia and not near the Welsh border. Is someone getting Hertfordshire and Herefordshire confused?ETA: Both she and Guildford Dudley are buried in The Church of St Peter Ad Vincula (the church within The Tower.

@-RONNIE 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the video 👍🏻

@white-dragon4424 20 дней назад

Correction, she was a queen of England, not the queen of the whole of Britain. The first person to become the monarch of the whole of Britain was James VI of Scotland, when he also became James I of England in 1603. I thought being an Englishman you'd know that.

@ignitionfrn2223 3 месяца назад

2:20 - Chapter 1 - A lady of style, education & grace 5:05 - Chapter 2 - Becoming a puppet of power 9:05 - Chapter 3 - The path to the throne 12:05 - Chapter 4 - Ascension as queen 14:45 - Chapter 5 - Trial for treason 17:05 - Chapter 6 - Wyatt's rebellion 20:05 - Chapter 7 - Legacy 22:05 - Conclusion

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff 3 месяца назад

Thanks.

@stephenbriandeleon5119 3 месяца назад

Please make a video about another executed British Monarch Charles I

@bigblitz 2 месяца назад

I haven't seen this channel in a while, what happened to Simon?

@--enyo-- 3 месяца назад

6:40 Karl goes on about how Thomas Seymour was Jane Seymour’s brother so close to Henry that way but completely skips Catherine Parr was Henry’s wife. 😂

@pyromania1018 Месяц назад

It's not inaccurate: Jane's death after giving birth to the longed for son meant the Seymours gained a lot of prestige, and they exploited that.

@Chipoo88 3 месяца назад

The portrait shown of Mary Tudor at 13:08 is that of Mary Tudor, youngest sister of Henry VIII and not his daughter Mary I. Jane was Queen for 13 days not 9. Her spelling of the word Queen is totally accepted since at the time spelling was flexible and there was not only one way to spell any given word

@OldPirate1718 3 месяца назад

9 days, not 13...read a few history books

@kallekas8551 3 месяца назад

Should do one on Mannerheim… super fascinating chap…

@Hamzakhan-dt3gv 3 месяца назад

Interesting video

@wiseduck98 3 месяца назад

Do one on John von Neumann next!! Severely underrated figure

@stormyweathers9887 3 месяца назад

"The demise of the device!" 🤣

@Ryan-zd4rv 3 месяца назад

It’s okay man my last name is “Touchstone”

@TheMagicLemur 2 месяца назад

So was she the first Queen of England (besides Matilda)?

@SafetySpooon 3 месяца назад

"Quene" was not "spelled wrong"; spelling was not as codified as it is today.

@user-nb3mq3cg8k 3 месяца назад

Pls. Make a series of Biographies about Charles Darwin and his correspondence and others like Henry William Wilberforce and the 1860 Oxford Evolution Debate and some insights about the oxford movement perhaps

@grandthanatos 3 месяца назад

She had a great cameo in an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

@tony1019 3 месяца назад

Small wood.. that's not gonna be a lasting fire

@doublenegativetactical1402 3 месяца назад

Is Simon Whistler dead 🤔

@Maderyne 3 месяца назад

Trouble to those who aspire to greatness, there are always hidden agendas.

@AC-mb2kp 3 месяца назад

So how small we talking? 🤏🏾

@TRDPaul 3 месяца назад

Poor girl

@jtsnowman66 3 месяца назад

Still interim host?? Been awhile no??

@grahambull5245 3 месяца назад

What’s the name of the place where she was born again, pikie?

@kennyhagan5781 3 месяца назад

I like Karl as a host, and he has some interesting thoughts that he isn't afraid to share. The Tudors........I really can't say anything, I'm a Texan so....yeah.

@intothemystic5223 2 месяца назад

Smallwood?? HAHAHAHA I'm just joking...I'm not a 10 year old boy lol

@camdenharper7244 3 месяца назад

Love you, Karl. One of the few simone replacements i never click off of

@mwi3865 2 месяца назад

5:50 not weird at all🙄

@giselematthews7949 3 месяца назад

No dude, you ARE Karl Smallwood. You have been around RU-vid, forever!

@kodyeldridge5847 3 месяца назад

Liz Truss’ spirit mammal.

@ClaudiaX2 Месяц назад

Yes, we are used to Simon. But the material is still good and the presenter isnt bad. Its the presentation. Very dull and dreary background, excessively large and unnatractive microphone in the foreground. No lively colors or interesting things to draw the eye. Audio quality isn't great either. Hopefully this will improve....

@smlince 3 месяца назад

Why can't this host have had half the days she had?

@triggeredcat120 3 месяца назад

Man what a crappy short life.

@--enyo-- 3 месяца назад

16:40 there was no standardisation of spelling back then, so you couldn’t really spell anything ‘wrong’.

@paulwillard9687 Месяц назад

You still can’t be Catholic and monarch because you are also head of the church of England which is Protestant

@mwi3865 2 месяца назад

Been doing this like a year now…why keep saying interim if your never going to leave? Stop getting our hopes up

@crabbuckets7506 3 месяца назад

I like eggs

@EyesOfByes 3 месяца назад

0:04 #LinusMediaGroup has a Sarah *Butt* . So feel no shame with a cool name.

@dfdemt 2 месяца назад

Someone remind me, when and why did Simon stop presenting on this channel?

@secretbaguette 2 месяца назад

Wh- Hunh? Where's Simon gone?

@e.c.3844 2 месяца назад

Never watch Biographics .

@georgeosborn3223 3 месяца назад

Oh, if there was only a simpler word for "skeletonized head"...

@songohan3321 3 месяца назад

I win

@EGSBiographies-om1wb 3 месяца назад

78th

@SPDinMS3 3 месяца назад

I like the other guy better

@bunyipdragon9499 3 месяца назад

Karl, Karl, Karl, Quene was a perfectly acceptable form of spelling the title at the time. It wasn't formally spelt as Queen for some time later. As much as you read english you really shouldn't comment on olde (pronounced old not old-e) english esp as you struggle to pronounce some modern English 😆

@randomcon123 3 месяца назад

Biographics is now so terrible….why can’t Karl just read the script and not try to be funny…

@avalonkerr8332 2 месяца назад

I would make a name joke but I'm too transfixed by your accent.

@catjohnson2522 3 месяца назад

Wasn’t Karl a writer for these channels?

@--enyo-- 3 месяца назад

Yes

@pykepyke_ 3 месяца назад

Karl is a great host, I hope he sticks around

@zacharyholt4243 3 месяца назад

Cool info, but breaking every 30 secs to explain. “Yeah this is weird” or “it kinda sucked back then” really doesn’t add anything. Like saying a joke and stopping midway through to explain “this is just a joke by the way”. Guess I’m just spoiled by Dan Carlins hardcore history.

@SmokeyJoe42098 3 месяца назад

Bring back Simon

@--enyo-- 3 месяца назад

Simon made the decision to part ways.

@ashleewillis125 Месяц назад

Why is he talking like there's a race to just get the video over with??! Didn't make it very enjoyable to watch. And please stop harping on her education being lacking because she "misspelled" the word queen. I'm thinking whoever wrote this episode is the uneducated one if they don't realize that in this time period, spelling one word with multiple spellings was extremely common. Goodness. Also...history is full of people who make mistakes and do notorious and horrible things. Every country in ALL time periods has humans who do these things. So if these people truly believe "British history sucks", tell me why they're bothering to make these videos in the first place? Maybe it's this excuse for a documentary that sucked, not so much British history 💁‍♀️😅

@andrewcarson5850 3 месяца назад

When is the grown up presenter back? You know, the one who can pronounce eschew and isn't gobsmacked that folk from history had different notions than us.

@danielfortier2629 3 месяца назад

I thought you had gotten rid of this guy!! PLEASE GET RID OF HIM, because I am THIS CLOSE TO UNSUBSCRIBING!!!!!

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff 3 месяца назад

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

@ThatElfTorunn 3 месяца назад

Then feel free to unsubscribe. I doubt the channel will hurt much from your absence. At this point, the bullying of Karl has gotten bloody ridiculous.

@joeobrien196 3 месяца назад

You don’t have to announce your departure.

@danielfortier2629 3 месяца назад

@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff That's pretty impolite on your part. Why don't you learn how to behave like a human being.

@danielfortier2629 3 месяца назад

@@joeobrien196 Yes I do!!! The people who run the channel NEED TO KNOW WHY people unsubscribe or are about to unsubscribe. That way they can make the necessary changes. After all they make videos FOR VIEWERS! If viewers are displeased, they need to know. The bottom line is less viewers and subscribers = less money for the people who run the channel, just like every other media out there!