In July 1553 Lady Jane Grey enters the Tower as queen, set up by the Duke of Northumberland, and within days the council turns against her. The novel follows her brief reign, imprisonment and the plotting around Queen Mary, mixed with the Tower’s lower life of giants Og, Gog and Magog, the dwarf Xit, the headsman and the Spanish envoy Simon Renard.
A Victorian bestseller of history, horror and comic relief, much of it set inside the real towers and dungeons. Download the free EPUB.