History lover

Don’t take that job!

A warning to all 16 year olds - don’t take the first job that you’re offered. Here is a story about a 16 year old girl - I don’t know her personally as it happened some years ago but there is a lot of evidence that it is true.

This girl was leading a very pleasant, actually affluent, life. Her parents owned large properties in London and Suffolk and therefore it was expected that she would never have to work and would make a good marriage to someone who would be able to keep her in similar style. Her cousin was a young man who had inherited the family business at a very young age (let’s say for ironys sake they were large kerosene suppliers for the country). The two cousins knew each other well and had actually been virtually brought up together, being of similar age.

Her young cousin had thrown himself headlong into the business and had been making the changes to it that he believed that his late father would have wanted. His achievements, for one so young, were quite remarkable. However he was ill - very ill in fact and knew that he would not recover from his illness. His dilema was what to do with the business?

As I said he had made all these changes to the business and in the event of his death it should pass to his half-sister. However not only was she much older than he but he also knew that she would undo all his work. You see thier father had deliberately changed the business when he had divorced her mother and he knew that she would want to turn it back to the way it was, in memory of her mother, amongst other reasons.

So he decided to sign the business over to his young cousin, who he was sure would keep the business going in the direction that he and his father would want.

The problem was that she didn’t want to do it, her parents however did and though she protested they forced her to accept the business when the cousin died. Reluctantly she was taken to London to take up her new position but her other cousin (the aforementioned half sister) intervened. With support from many of the senior managers and shareholders it took the half sister just nine days to take control of the business.

The half sister was none to pleased with our young heroine and treated her most unfairly.

Do you know what she did?

Well seven months later she had the poor young girl’s head chopped off!!!

The Characters:-

Young girl - Lady Jane Grey

Male cousin - King Edward VI

Female cousin - Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary)