Although the Queen offered Jane reprieve for her treason by giving her a chance to convert to Catholicism, Jane refused due to her fervent faith–or so the history books state.

What if Jane’s death wasn’t really hers at all?

I continued down this interrogation as I continued to daydream.

Would anything in history shift because of Jane’s conversion to Catholicism? Besides her name disappearing from Fox’s Book of Martyrs, what else would change?

But history would hinge more on the simple conversion and life lived out by a traitor cousin to the throne. The pivotal plot point would be wrapped up in a different question, Why?

Why would someone like Jane convert at all?

WHY would a zealous Protestant young teen like Lady Jane Grey Dudley, choose to betray her faith and convert to Catholicism under the pressure of the woman now known as Bloody Mary? Knowing the high stakes during the Protestant Reformation, and the devotion Jane Grey had to her beliefs, something huge would have to make her waver at Mary’s offer. Why would this happen?

This is the question that launched in my mind a new story bursting to be told. And it’s one that hardly shifts the current timeline, but flips over the recorded Tudor history as if it were a tapestry, revealing a web of threads, knots, and snags yet to be discovered–and an underground legacy that reaches well beyond the Tudor bloodline.

If Lady Jane didn’t die so young, what unexpected legacy might she have left to us that changes nothing in the history books of today–but MUST happen for history to remain the same?

It is exciting to have written this story and see it unfold. I am currently seeking publication so you might know the rest of the story. Until then, join me here for Fictitious Friday on October 2nd, to get a snippet more of intrigue in this upside down timeline of Tudor England

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