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Above: A portrait thought to be of Lady Margaret Stanley, countess of Derby or her mother Lady Eleanor Brandon. In recent years there has been an expl...

Lady Jane Grey

Lady Jane Grey was made queen of England for nine days in 1553, at age 15, before she was executed by Mary Tudor.

Book Lady Jane Grey by Marguerite Vance, ilustrated by Nedda Walker, 1952.[One of the illustrations I loved as a child.--Tamar Heller]

Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554). Jane was nominal Queen of England for just nine days in 1553, as part of an unsuccessful bid to prevent the accession of the Catholic Mary Tudor.

by Edward Hargrave, after Adriaen van der Werff hand-coloured engraving published 1840 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Shute Barton, in the village of the same name near Axminster, Devon, dates from the 14th century and was owned and lived in by Cecily Bonville, who was Lady Jane Grey's great-grandmother.

Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and half-sister to Mary I. The painting is attributed to William Scrots and was painted in the last years of Henry’s reign. This was painted at a time when Elizabeth and her sister enjoyed a friendly relationship, prior the days when it would become incredibly strained on grounds of religion and politics (and to some degree parentage).

“By this time news was brought that Sir John Williams was also proclaiming Queen Mary in Oxfordshire. From that time forward certain of the council, that is, the Earl of Pembroke and the Lord Warden sought to go out of the Tower to consult in London, but could not as yet.” - From The Chronicle of Queen Jane, and of Two Years of Queen Mary The Mary Tudor: Renaissance Queen blog continues its excellent anniversary posts on the rise to power of Mary Tudor in the summer of 1553, with an account…

Lady Jane Gray

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Why DID the English, usually so good at warfare, take so long to learn how to sharpen an axe?, asks CHRISTOPHER HUDSON. The Tower of London’s fearful victims were constantly complaining about it before they lowered their trembling heads on the block.

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‘Portrait of a lady called Lady Jane Grey’, by Henry Pierce Bone, c.1844. Enamel on copper; 10.8 x 8.5cm. The miniature was purchased by Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, in 1844 to add to the couple’s growing collection of portraits of sixteenth-century figures. It is still part of the Royal Collection. On the back of the portrait is the following inscription: ‘Lady Jane Grey / London April 1844 Painted / by Henry Pierce Bone Enamel / Painter to her Majesty & H.R. / H. Prince Albert…

Modern depiction of Katherine by Kristina Gehrmann