Airdate: Lady Jane Grey: Murder of a Child Queen

History series Lady Jane Grey: Murder of a Child Queen begins tonight on SBS.

This appears to be a three part series.

In 1553 Tudor England, Wales and Ireland is taken to the brink of a bloody civil war when the dying King Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, leaves the throne, not to his elder sister, Mary, but to his cousin, the Lady Jane Grey. The life of Lady Jane Grey is a tragic narrative. From the moment Edward VI draws Jane into the line of succession, her terrible fate, on the block in the Tower of London, is sealed. Historian Helen Castor undertakes some Tudor detective work and turns back to the primary sources in an attempt to build the real story of Jane Grey and those dark figures that surrounded her, tracing her world, and the nine days she spent on the throne.

Episode One: Shades of Grey
Helen looks at the ‘Devise for Succession’, written in Edward’s own hand, containing two words that sealed Jane’s fate. She also talks to experts about two new letters, first discovered in 2013. These fascinating letters give us additional information about Jane’s wedding and new evidence about whether Jane was beaten by her parents.

7:30pm Monday July 2 on SBS