Jason Watkins & Lady Jane Grey: A Tower of London Special

In this special episode of Inside the Tower of London, Jason Watkins, the voice and narrator of the show, discovers he may have a personal connection to the place. In a Who Do You Think You Are?-type journey, historian Tracy Borman researches the actor’s Tudor ancestry, discovering that, as he thought, he is distantly related to Sir John Brydges, the Tower Lieutenant who was charged with looking after Lady Jane Grey when she was imprisoned by her cousin, Mary I. Brydges then, as immortalised in Paul Delaroche’s celebrated 19th-century painting, oversaw Jane’s execution in 1554.

That’s incredible enough, but it doesn’t end there, and Borman uncovers yet another family connection. This special episode airs tonight at 9.00pm on Channel 5 and the new series of starts Thursday at 8.00pm.