Alone and exhausted, death hovered outside Lady Jane Grey’s prison door, patiently waiting to claim her when the sun rose. This cold February night in the Tower of London would be her last.

With her fate sealed, Jane Grey glanced around her cell, looking for a blank sheet of paper. Nothing. Undeterred, Jane opened up to the back of her Greek New Testament and found a few blank pages.

She had one last letter to write.