00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Gregory, Philippa aut Verfasser/-in The last Tudor Gregory, Philippa London Simon and Schuster 2018 Taschenbuch How long do I have?' I force a laugh. 'Not long,' he says very quietly. 'They have confirmed your sentence of death. You are to be beheaded tomorrow. We don't have long at all.' 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's 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's block. There Jane turned her father's greedy, failed grab for power into her own brave and tragic martyrdom. 9781471171628 9781471171628 1471171620 1471171620 eng Band 519 S.