Execution of Lady Jane Grey

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1. 1554Tower of London · LondonAfter Wyatt's Rebellion failed, the Privy Council concluded that Jane Grey and her family might still be raised up as queen by the opposition. Although Mary had previously intended to pardon her, the rebellion hardened the government's stance; the death sentences on Jane Grey and Guildford Dudley were carried out, with the execution order issued on 12 February.
2. 1554Tower Green, London · LondonOn the morning of 12 February, Jane Grey was led to Tower Green inside the Tower of London for execution. According to eyewitness accounts she walked calmly to the scaffold, made a brief statement that she legally deserved death, and was then beheaded. Her husband Guildford Dudley had already been publicly executed earlier that day on Tower Hill; the two were buried together in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London.