On Feb. 12, 1554, Lady Jane Grey executed at the age of 16.

Royal Mail, UK. 
Issued Apr. 21, 2009
Part of a large Kings and Queens series
Designer: Atleier Works. 

On this day, Lady Jane Grey was executed on the orders of her cousin Queen Mary I. Jane was a pawn in father’s political machinations, which led to her short-lived reign as Queen and eventual arrest and arraignment on high treason charges November 14, 1553. At her trail, she pled guilty and was sentenced to death. 

On Feb. 12, 1554, she was led to the scaffold where she would be beheaded.  Before her execution Lady Jane briefly addressed the people gathered to witness her death:

Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. The fact, indeed, against the queen’s highness was unlawful, and the consenting thereunto by me: but touching the procurement and desire thereof by me or on my behalf, I do wash my hands thereof in innocency, before God, and the face of you, good Christian people, this day.’ 

She said a prayer and then distributed the few belongings she had with her and then turned to the executioner asking that he “dispatch” her quickly. 

She tied the kercher about her eyes; then feeling for the block said, ‘What shall I do? Where is it?’ One of the standers-by guiding her thereto, she laid her head down upon the block, and stretched forth her body and said: ‘Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!’ And so she ended.

Above quotes from: Hanson, Marilee. The executions of Lady Jane Grey & Lord Guildford Dudley, 1554, https://englishhistory.net/tudor/executions-of-lady-jane-grey-lord-guildford-dudley/, February 8, 2015