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Thursday, September 26, 2024 |
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PHOTOGRAPH BY THE FINE ART SOCIETY, LONDON/BRIDGEMAN IMAGES |
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She was still a teenager. And Lady Jane Grey had no idea she would be named (briefly) queen of England. Or that she would be railroaded and imprisoned, spending her final days at the Tower of London.
London’s Tower of Terror held other royal prisoners--little princes never seen again, wives of Henry VIII on their way out. But one 20-year-old woman moved from prisoner to become one of England’s mightiest monarchs. Who was she?
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PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY WENYING LI, XINJIANG CULTURAL RELICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY INSTITUTE |
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PHOTOGRAPH BY DUKE UNIVERSITY |
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Today’s Soundtrack: Complication, Robbie Fulks & Jim DeWan
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