british-history: 12 February 1554 Lady Jane Grey and Lord Dudley are Executed Lady Jane Grey and her
british-history:12 February 1554Lady Jane Grey and Lord Dudley are ExecutedLady Jane Grey and her husband, Lord Guildford Dudley, were both executed on this day in British history, 12 February 1554. After her nine-day reign in July 1553, Jane Grey was deposed and Mary Tudor took the throne. Jane and her husband were imprisoned in the Tower of London but it was not until the aftermath of Wyatt’s Rebellion in February 1554 that Lady Grey and Lord Dudley were beheaded on Tower Green and Tower Hill, respectively. The painting above is “The Execution of Lady Jane Grey” by Paul Delaroche. -- source link
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