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Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554). English noblewoman who was proclaimed Queen of England and Ireland on 10 July 1553, reigning for only nine days until she was deposed by the Privy Council of England, which proclaimed her cousin, Mary I (Mary Tudor), as the new Queen on 19 July 1553. Grey was charged with high treason, along with her husband, two of her brothers and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, for treacherously assuming the title of Queen and the powers inherent in it. She was beheaded on 12 February 1554. Feckenham's Interview with Lady Jane Gray in the Tower. Engraving. Historia de las persecuciones políticas y religiosas en Europa (History of political and religious persecutions in Europe). Volume IV. Published in Barcelona, 1865.