Lady Jane Grey: Queen for Sale (Before They Were Famous)

by Caroline Corby B Sc Hons Mathematics & Statistics (Author)

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  2010

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  A thrilling historical adventure in the Before They Were Famous series, telling the story of the young Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey: Queen for Sale is the story of a Tudor girl doomed from birth by her royal blood. When Henry VIII dies Jane overhears that, inexplicably, in his will he has elevated her family in the event that his own children produce no heirs. Overnight the nine-year-old Jane has become a valuable pawn in the struggle for the throne of England. After being sold by her parents to Thomas Seymour, Jane is traded between powerful Tudor families as she grows older. As King Edward VI gets frailer, Jane's value rises. She falls into the hands of Warwick, a man who will do anything to get her on the throne. When he forces her to marry his son, Jane's fate is sealed. She must become queen or die.