My Lady Jane tells an alternate history of Lady Jane Grey who had a brief reign as the Queen of England. The series is streaming on Prime Video.
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Plot summary:
Lady Jane Grey is a clever young woman with an affinity for herbs and their medicinal properties.
However, her mother Francis wants Jane to fulfill her duty as a noblewoman and get married to secure her future.
The Greys are left stranded following the death of Jane’s father as his property has been diverted to the Duke of Leicester.
Jane lives with her sisters Catherine and Margaret, and her trusted maiden, Susanna. She is to be wed to Lord Guildford Dudley but is not interested in losing her freedom.
Her cousin is King Edward VI, and she wants to ask him for help but there are more pressing matters to handle.
Edward has come down with the affliction, a terminal disease that has forced him to live a sheltered life.
That means he has not witnessed the turmoil between the two kinds of people in his kingdom, the Verity and the Ethians.
The Verity are regular people, and the Ethians are people who can switch between animal form and human form at will.
They were cast out as satan’s spawn and division laws were passed stripping Ethians of all rights.
The scheming councillors around Edward have their goals and they sway the King to achieve them.
Key among them is Lord Seymour, who is secretly having an affair with Princess Mary, Edward’s older sister.
Edward has another sister named Elizabeth, and the two princesses were passed over when their father died.
Jane finds out that Susanna is an Ethian when she plans an escape, and Edward learns that his dog Petunia is also an Ethian.
She warns him that someone is poisoning his food and that he doesn’t have the affliction. He sets about trying to figure out who is trying to kill him.
Mary is the culprit because she seeks the throne and she’s been poisoning him with Seymour’s help.
Guildford’s father Lord Dudley wants to see his son become king through his marriage to Jane and convinces Edward to name Jane the heir in his will.
Jane makes several attempts to get out of her marriage but gives in once she realizes that she has no choice.
She finds Guildford somewhat charming and bothersome in equal measure. Then she finds out that he is an Ethian who has no control over his powers.
Guildford turns into a horse every dawn and turns back every dusk, and he married Jane for her exceptional knowledge of the natural sciences.
He wants to find a cure for his condition so that he can live life peacefully. His older brother Stan is a dunce who grows a liking to Francis but she treats him as a simple toy.
Mary loses patience and attempts to drive Edward to his death and when he disappears, she assumes she was successful.
He wakes up in a monastery with his grandmother who saved him and is an Ethian herself. She wants to awaken the Ethianism within Edward and then place him on the throne.
Seymour attempts to forge a will naming Mary the queen but Edward’s original will is found and Jane is announced as the new queen.
Francis had Catherine married to the Duke of Leicester but Margaret kills the old man the next morning so that Catherine doesn’t have to suffer.
They move to the palace with Francis who is thrilled to be in a position of power. While she’s on the throne, Jane has to worry about the constant threat of Mary.
She and Guildford also have to keep his condition a secret. Edward meets another Ethian named Fitz who tries to convince him that his grandmother is no better than the rest.
Edward refuses until he hears her say that she wants to wipe out all the Verity from the kingdom once he is on the throne.
Jane wants to expose Mary as a traitor in front of a crowd so she invites the Ethians and their leader Archer to her coronation banquet.
She announces at the event that she will be abolishing division laws and Mary makes quite a public scene.
Francis learns that Guildford is an Ethian and conspires to have him killed. Jane finds a witness to testify that Mary and Seymour attempted to kill Edward.
They flee before they are caught and Jane is left to gather support when Mary returns with an army.
She makes enemies out of the nobles with her support for Ethians and Archer doesn’t want to sacrifice his people for her cause.
Mary returns eventually with a huge army and has Jane imprisoned. Edward and Guildford both try to rescue her but she says she has a plan.
Jane wins over the people and overcomes a farce trial with an acquittal but Guildford is exposed as an Ethian in front of everyone and Jane is sentenced to death for marrying him.
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