Edward and Catherine were both in their late teens and physically attractive. They understood the precariousness of their positions at court and the humiliation of constantly having to fawn over those who had killed their family members. They themselves had been imprisoned as teenagers and threatened with death because of their family ties. Both had powerful fathers who were betrayed by John Dudley, duke of Northumberland, and executed for treason. Catherine fell in love with Edward Seymour the younger, son of Edward Seymour, who was the brother of Henry VIII's third wife, and the first Protector of the late King Edward VI. Lady Frances only waited three weeks after Henry's execution before she married her steward, Adrian Stokes, a young man only two years older than Lady Jane. But she couldn't keep them from falling in love. Queen Mary kept them close to her as ladies-in-waiting to make sure they didn't fall into the hands of those who would attempt another rebellion. Though Lady Jane had been executed, Lady Catherine, her mother Lady Frances, and her little sister Lady Mary, were still in the royal line of succession, and thusly still in jeopardy.
John Dudley, the mastermind of the plot, Lady Jane, her husband Guilford Dudley, and her father, Henry Grey, were all executed in less than one year of the death of King Edward. Jane and her family were imprisoned in the Tower of London. Mary Tudor also had a claim to the throne and she had the people on her side. Lady Jane Grey became Queen of England after the death of Edward VI but she only served for nine short days.
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