The Most Obedient Daughter

Lady Jane Grey is remembered as the Nine Days' Queen. A girl placed upon a throne she never expected to occupy, caught in a struggle for the Tudor succession and executed before her seventeenth birthday.

But The Most Obedient Daughter begins before the crown.

Jane is brilliant, devout and exceptionally educated, yet for all her learning, her future does not belong to her. She is a daughter in a world where obedience is expected, marriages are negotiated and a young woman of royal blood can become extraordinarily valuable to those with ambitions of their own.

As the dying Edward VI attempts to prevent the Catholic Mary Tudor from inheriting his throne, Jane finds herself drawn into a political design far greater than she is. Her bloodline makes her useful. Her faith makes her acceptable. Her obedience makes her vulnerable.

Then comes the crown.

The Most Obedient Daughter explores the human story behind one of Tudor England's shortest and most tragic reigns. Rather than beginning with Jane as the doomed Nine Days' Queen, it asks what happened to the daughter before she became the monarch.

How much choice did Jane really have? Where does obedience end and coercion begin? And what happens when the people a child has been taught to obey lead her towards destruction?

Jane Grey was Queen for nine days. She would spend the rest of her short life paying for it.