There is a single point that I find cause for debate with, and it is not so much to do with the story as the author herself so I will deal with it first. Where Jane’s information is lacking Weir switches to her nurse, and where the nurse is stuck at home with her mistress Weir turns to the Dudleys. Weir uses this device in order to give full details of what was happening so that you hear the story from different view points and can gather a lot of the evidence avaliable from different sources. Weir has the story narrated by various people, those associated with Jane in some way, and of course Jane herself. She “ruled” as queen for nine days having been forced to take the title by her power-driven father-in-law, before being arrested and made to suffer the pain of waiting while her second-cousin, the rightful queen, attempted to have her set free. A puppet at the hands of her elders, she was abused by her parents and shown little care all her short life, being set up as queen against the rightful succession for the welfare of those very people who abused her.
Lady Jane Grey, the great-niece of Henry VIII, was executed on 12th February 1554.
A brilliant re-telling of a life that other lives conveniently forgot.
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