Throughout the Tudor period, there were many men and women who lost their heads after being accused of treason. One Queen who lost her head inside of the Tower of London was the 9 Day Queen Lady Jane Grey. Following the death of Henry VIII’s successor Edward VI, Jane was named Queen as the previous King wanted a strong protestant monarch. But Jane would be deposed a number of days later as Mary I managed to oust her. Mary was the eldest daughter of Henry VIII, and was probably the rightful successor and Queen, however she then sought to punish those who had been behind Lady Jane Grey’s accession to the throne. There were a number of executions which were ordered, and one man who lost his head was the father of Jane, Sir Henry Grey the 1st Duke of Suffolk. On the 23rd February 1554 on Tower Hill, an axeman took his head off but this would not be the end for his head which hundreds of years later would be discovered having been smuggled out of the Tower of London.