Lady Jane was born into times of extreme danger. Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes, she lived a life in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour. Jane´s astonishing and essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of Engilsh history. As a great-niece of Henry VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, she grew up to realise that she could never throw off the chains of her detiny. Her hinesty, intelligence and strength os character carry the reader throught all the vicious twists os Tudor power politics, to her nine-day reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion.
