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In a desperate plan to perpetuate his power, he convinced the dying Edward that the latter's sister Mary should be excluded from the succession as a Catholic, and he browbeat the council into proclaiming Lady JaneGrey, his daughter-in-law, as queen when the monarch died (1553).

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