Editing Lady Katherine Grey (section)

==Family and claim to the throne==
Lady Katherine was born on 25 August 1540 at [[Bradgate Park]], near [[Leicester]], the second surviving daughter of [[Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk]], by his marriage to [[Lady Frances Brandon]]. She was the younger sister of [[Lady Jane Grey]] and elder sister of [[Lady Mary Grey]]. Katherine Grey's maternal grandparents were [[Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk]], and [[Mary Tudor, Queen of France|Mary Tudor, Dowager Queen of France]], youngest surviving daughter of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] and [[Elizabeth of York]].<ref>Chapman p. 154.</ref>

Through their [[grandmother]], the Grey sisters had a close claim in the line of succession to the [[English throne]]. They were preceded in the line of succession only by Henry VIII's three children – [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]], [[Mary I of England|Lady Mary]] and [[Elizabeth I of England|Lady Elizabeth]] – and the descendants of [[Margaret Tudor|Princess Margaret]], the elder daughter of Henry VII and Queen Consort of Scotland, after 1542 represented by [[Mary, Queen of Scots]]. However, Henry VIII had excluded the Scottish regal line from the English succession in his Will, placing the Grey sisters next-in-line after his own children.<ref>Chapman, p. 156.</ref>