When Edward dies, Lord and Lady Dorset maneuver the throne for their 16-year-old daughter, risking her life as well as increased violence between Protestants and Catholics. Not even the beheadings of Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard deter parental ambition. Jane relishes lessons in music, theology, philosophy and literature, but struggles to master courtly manners as her mother demands. As Weir tells it, Jane's parents, the Marquess and Marchioness of Dorset, groom her from infancy to be the perfect consort for Henry's son, Prince Edward, entrusting their daughter to a nurse's care while they attend to affairs at court. Weir's heroine is Lady Jane Grey (1537–1554), whose ascension to the English throne was briefly and unluckily promoted by opponents of Henry's Catholic heir, Mary. , etc.) makes her historical fiction debut with this coming-of-age novel set in the time of Henry VIII. Popular biographer Weir ( Eleanor of Aquitaine
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