Jane and Guildford’s love story is just getting started — and season 2 of My Lady Jane might be closer than fans think. Based on historical YA novels by Jodi Meadows, Brodi Ashton and Cynthia Hand , My Lady Jane is a radical reimagining of Lady Jane Grey’s ( Emily Bader ) very brief time as monarch after King Henry VIII ’s son Edward ( Jordan Peters ) died of tuberculosis. In this version, Jane and her husband, Guildford ( Edward Bluemel ), aren’t beheaded and Edward isn’t killed off.
My Lady Jane blew up right after it premiered on Prime Video in June 2024 for a variety of reasons. Some fans tuned in because of the undeniable onscreen chemistry between Bader and Bluemel’s characters while others were intrigued by the chaotic plot that had Guildford turning into a horse every morning. No matter what the reason why viewers were watching the show , the demand for more seasons was strong.
Even though there weren’t more books in the series to base future seasons off of, that didn’t seem to be a problem for show creator Gemma Burgess . “[A second season is] always a possibility. We wanted to really lean into the visual storytelling of taking a woman up to the point of being beheaded.
It seemed like an opportunity too good to pass up,” the screenwriter told Entertainment Weekly at the time. “I used to be an author. When you’re an author, you can do an awful lot of first person present tense thinking, but when you are on television, you have to have conflic.