"They gave her a Perfect Lover, then Plotted her Excecution. A Romance which Out-Triumphed the Most Terrible Crime in History"
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
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Nova Pilbeam
Lady Jane Grey
Cedric Hardwicke
Earl of Warwick
John Mills
Lord Guilford Dudley
Felix Aylmer
Edward Seymour
Leslie Perrins
Thomas Seymour
Frank Cellier
Henry VIII
Desmond Tester
Edward VI
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies
Mary Tudor (as Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies)
Martita Hunt
Jane's Mother
Miles Malleson
Jane's Father
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On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.
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Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
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