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While Rinaldi takes some liberties with the facts, this is a generally apt and compelling fictionalized account of Jane Grey, queen of England after Edward VI. Jane chronicles her life from her stay with Henry VIII and Katharine Parr when she was nine until her beheading at the age of sixteen--a result of her father-in-law's plot to keep Mary from the throne. Bib.