Lady Jane Grey is usually remembered as a tragic pawn, a frightened girl forced onto the throne by ambitious men. But that story simply doesn’t hold up.

When Jane was told she was queen, she wept and insisted that Mary was the rightful heir. Yet once she learned that Edward VI had named her, she made a deliberate choice. She embraced the crown as God’s will, and she ruled.

This video reveals a very different Jane:

• The teenage queen who signed herself “Jane the Quene”

• The ruler who ordered troops, guards, curfews, and proclamations

• The young woman who chose her husband’s title and took charge of London

• The prisoner who refused to bend, denounced Catholicism, and argued theology with the queen’s own chaplain

• The sixteen-year-old who faced death ...