My Lady Jane: how to watch free and all we know about Amazon's Bridgerton rival
Amazon is set to launch a new period drama sure to scratch the itch of Bridgerton fans. Launching later this month, My Lady Jane is an alternate history drama centred around real-life monarch Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for nine days before she was beheaded.
Billed as an ‘alt-fantasy Tudor romantasy’ the eight-part series is inspired by the best-selling novel from co-authors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadow. My Lady Jane promises to deliver the heart-stopping Tudor romance so popular among Bridgerton fans, but with more swashbuckling action.
The series comes from Brooklyn Girls’ Gemma Burgess and The Boys’ Meredith Glynn, who both serve as co-showrunners and executive producer. Speaking to Radio Times, Burgess revealed the series takes inspiration from a handful of real and fictional sources.
“Many people know that Lady Jane Grey was married against her will, made Queen for nine days, then put in the Tower and shortly thereafter beheaded. Our show is about what might have happened if history was different and if she hadn’t died,” she said.
“It’s a silly, fun, smart, swashbuckling, rambunctious alternative history. It’s The Princess Bride meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Blackadder.”
So if that sounds up your street, here’s everything you need to know about My Lady Jane.
What is My Lady Jane about?
My Lady Jane is a radical retelling of English royal history, in which King Henry VIII’s son Edward does not die of tuberculosis, Lady Jane Grey is not beheaded and neither is her husband Guildford. At the centre of the series is the brilliant and headstrong Jane, a young Tudor noblewoman who is shocked to be crowned queen and finds herself the target of nefarious villains coming for the crown – and her head.
Emily Bader, Robyn Betteridge, Isabella Brownson and Anna Chancellor in My Lady Jane
When is My Lady Jane coming out?
My Lady Jane will premiere at 8am BST on Thursday, June 27. All eight episodes will be available to stream from launch.
How to watch My Lady Jane for free
My Lady Jane is available to stream with an Amazon Prime subscription and is free for those who sign up to an Amazon Prime 30-day trial. Prime usually costs £8.99 a month or £95 a year and comes with a host of benefits like next day delivery, Amazon Music Prime, Deliveroo Plus and free delivery on HelloFresh orders for a year, but members can try all this for 30 days without paying a penny.
Amazon also offers Prime Video without the added Prime benefits for £5.99 a month after a 30-day free trial, which includes top titles like The Boys, Fallout and Clarkson’s Farm.
Dominic Cooper as Lord Seymour and Rob Brydon as Lord Dudley
Who is in the My Lady Jane cast?
My Lady Jane boasts a stacked cast led by newcomer Emily Bader in the titular role of Jane Grey. She stars opposite Killing Eve’s Edward Bluemel as Jane’s husband Guildford Dudley.
Also starring are Preacher’s Dominic Cooper as Lord Seymour, Pennyworth’s Anna Chancellor as Jane’s mother Lady Frances Grey, with Gavin and Stacey’s Rob Brydon is Guildford’s father Lord Dudley. They appear alongside The Duke’s Jim Broadbent as Jane’s uncle the Duke of Leicester and Pirates’ Jordan Peters as King Edward.
Rounding out the cast is Henry Ashton, Isabella Brownson, Robyn Betteridge, Kate O’Flynn, Abbie Hern, Joe Klocek, Michael Workeye and Extraordinary star Máiréad Tyers.
Is there a trailer for My Lady Jane?
Prime Video unveiled the official trailer for My Lady Jane in May, you can watch it on Youtube.
My Lady Jane premieres June 27 on Prime Video.
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