review by Maggie Perkovic on show 1st December 2011
We all know the story of lady Jane Grey who was put to death at just seventeen because she had conspired to take the throne from the rightful heir Mary Tudor. Unfortunately she didn't have much choice in the matter. The grandaughter of Mary sister to Henry VIII her parents had high hopes of her birth hoping for a boy, when she proved the first of three girls her mother treated her cruelly, beating her for any demeanour despite Jane being a hardworking brilliantly intelligent child she was never appreciated, and only as her cousin the King Edward the sixth became ill did her worth as a possible
heir to the throne arise. Before that she was made to wed Guilford Dudley, the spoilt son of an ambitious Duke who hoped to gain access to the throne through the young couple. Jane was beaten until she agreed to marry him, which made her very unhappy. After the young King's death, she was made to accept the throne, only doing so in the belief she was saving the country from a papist Queen.When Mary finally gained the throne with the army of English soldiers who knew she was the heir to the throne, Jane could have saved herself if she took the Roman Catholic faith, but refused believing hers was the true faith, as Protestant. She died bravely, as did her unwanted husband and his father and all traitors to Mary.
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