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Queens --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Monarchy --- Women --- Courts and courtiers --- Empresses --- Kings and rulers --- Grey, Jane, --- Dudley, Jane, --- Gray, Jane, --- Great Britain --- Succession --- History
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"This book aims to provide essentially all the known historical information regarding the man, Henry Grey. He descended from a distinguished and noble heritage that produced two queens, and he gave up a quiet and leisurely life to become one of the most powerful and influential men in England. His influence was so strong, that working in alliance with the Duke of Northumberland, he was able to coerce the young and dying King Edward VI to change the order of succession to the crown, placing his daughter, Lady Jane Grey, on the throne when Edward died"--Provided by publisher.
Nobility --- Suffolk, Henry Grey, --- Suffolk, Henry Grey, --- Northumberland, John Dudley, --- Grey, Jane, --- Family. --- Friends and associates. --- Great Britain --- Great Britain --- Great Britain --- Great Britain --- History --- History --- Politics and government --- Politics and government
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Behind the façade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama.Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and so perpetuating his dynasty. To that end, he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the pope, all in an age of international competition and warfare, social unrest and growing religious intolerance and discord.Henry fathered four living children, each by a different mother. Their interrelationships were often scarred
Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553. --- Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554. --- Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 -- Family. --- Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Great Britain --- Henry --- Mary --- Elizabeth --- Edward --- Tudor, House of. --- Family. --- History --- Elisabeth --- Mary Tudor, --- Tudor, Mary, --- Maria --- Marie Tudor, --- Tudor, Marie, --- Henricus --- Heinrich --- Enrique --- Henri --- Hendrik --- Enrico
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