The true story of the ill-fated Queen Jane opens with the young King Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, on his deathbed, with his ministers and others plotting around him over the succession to the...

The true story of the ill-fated Queen Jane opens with the young King Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, on his deathbed, with his ministers and others plotting around him over the succession to the throne. According to the will of Henry VIII, Lady Jane Grey is Edward's heir, keeping England as a protestant country. After Edward dies, a leading courtier, the Duke of Nothumberland, marries his son Lord Guildford Dudley to Jane and proclaims her Queen of England. Indifferent to each other to begin with, Guildford and Jane quickly fall in love. But Catholic and other forces are working outside London to put Princess Mary on the throne, and Jane's reign seems likely to be a short one.