[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History July 19

[Jacklyn Crisp]

Termination notices were a bit over the top then.
Being Queen was not all it was cracked up to be.
Rose

--- "Steve K. Rourke" <steverourke at charter.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> > Enquiring minds want to know what Lady Jane Grey
> did
> > to be replaced as Queen of England after only 9
> > days??? Must have been realy bad at the job.
> > Rose
> 
> Jane's mother, Lady Frances Brandon, had a claim to
> the throne as the
> daughter of King Henry VIII's younger sister Mary
> Tudor. (Frances Brandon's
> father, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, had
> married Mary Tudor as her
> second husband.) Jane's status as a monarch remains
> controversial, as her
> succession contravened two Acts of Parliament. The
> Act of Succession of 1544
> enabled the will of King Henry VIII to specify the
> order of succession of
> his children. In contrast, the published will of
> King Edward VI, which named
> Lady Jane Grey as heir presumptive, contravened the
> law because Edward, as a
> minor, had not legally reached an age where he could
> make a will.
> 
> Though Jane's "accession" breached the laws of
> England, many powers of the
> land were willing to accept her as Queen of England,
> even if only as part of
> a power-struggle to stop Henry's elder daughter,
> Princess Mary (a Roman
> Catholic) from acceding to the throne. Jane's brief
> rule ended, however,
> when the authorities revoked her proclamation as
> queen. The new Marian
> régime eventually had her executed for treason.
> 
> 
> 
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