Lady Jane Grey Deposed After 9 Days: Mary I Takes the Crown
Nine days. That's all Lady Jane Grey got before her own supporters abandoned her. The sixteen-year-old never wanted the throne—her ambitious father-in-law, the Duke of Northumberland, forced her coronation on July 10, 1553, hoping to block Catholic Mary Tudor's claim. But nobles defected within a week. Mary entered London on August 3rd with overwhelming support. Jane was imprisoned in the Tower, eventually beheaded at seventeen. England's shortest-reigning monarch never even had a proper coronation ceremony—just a crown she begged not to wear.
July 19, 1553
473 years ago
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