E51: Mary I with Dr Valerie Schutte
All Things Tudor - The Podcast
Mary Executing Jane Grey
I do think that we'll never know exactly if it was Edward or John Dudley or some kind of combination who really worked to put Jane on the throne. I also think too that Jane was probably a pawn in a big political game and not necessarily 100% innocent but upon yes, and that she was married to the Duke of Northumberland son, Guilford Dudley. So I do think that there's a lot of things there that we still don't quite understand how they happened. But it definitely seems like there was lots of politics involved and we just won't know because Edward was so young at the time if he was behind all of it or if it was his advisors.
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