Lady Jane Grey and Her Times

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Lady Jane Grey
From a photo by Emery Walker after the picture by Lucas de Heere in the National portrait Gallery
By I. A. TAYLOR
Author of “Queen Hortense and her Friends” “Queen Henrietta Maria,” etc.
WITH SEVENTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS
London: HUTCHINSON & CO. Paternoster Row
1908



In 1546 it must have been evident to most observers that the life of the man who had for thirty-five years been England’s ruler and tyrant—of whom Raleigh affirmed that if all the patterns of a merciless Prince had been lost in the world they might have been found in this one King—was not likely to be prolonged; and though it had been made penal to foretell the death of the sovereign, men must have been secretly looking on to the future with anxious eyes.