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Paperback. Pub Date:2010-03-04 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins UK The dramatic untold story of the Grey sisters. heirs to the Tudor throne.Lady Jane Grey is an iconic figure in English history Misremembered as the Nine Days Queen. she has been mythologized as a child-woman destroyed on the altar of political expediency. Behind the legend. however. was an opinionated and often rebellious adolescent who died a passionate leader. not merely a victim. Growing up in Janes shadow. her sisters Katherine and Mary would have to tread carefully to survive.The dramatic lives of the younger Grey sisters remain little known. but under English law they were the heirs - and rivals - to the Tudor monarchs Mary and Elizabeth I. The beautiful Katherine ignored Janes dying request that she remain faithful to her beliefs. changing her religion to retain Queen Marys favou...