Captivity


During her captivity in the Tower of London, Lady Jane Grey was lodged in the house of Mr Nathaniel Partridge, on Tower Green. In August 1553, the author of ‘The Chronicle of Queen Jane’ dined at the house and recorded his conversation with Lady Jane.

Details of this conversation can be found in the following:

Henry VIII’s Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors by David Baldwin (1 line only)

Notices of the Historic Persons Buried in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London: with an account of the discovery of the supposed remains of Queen Anne Boleyn by Doyne C Bell

Lady Katherine Grey: A Dynastic Tragedy by Conor Byrne (extract)

She Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor (1 line only)

Lady Jane Grey by Hester W Chapman

Lady Jane Grey: Nine Day Queen of England by Faith Cook

Catholic Renewal and Protestant Resistance in Marian England (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700) edited by Elizabeth Evenden and Vivienne Westbrook (extract)

The Nine Days’ Queen: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by Richard Davey

Tales from the Tower of London by Daniel Diehl and Mark P Donnelly

The Children of Henry VIII by John Guy

The Story of Lady Jane Grey (Essay in Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey) by John Guy

Silent But For The Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works edited by Margaret Patterson Hannay

John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey’s Father-In-Law by Christine Hartweg (extract)

Tower of London by Christopher Hibbert

The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens by Roland Hui (extract)

Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery by Eric Ives (extract)

Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London by Nigel Jones (1 line only)

The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey by Leanda de Lisle

The Tudor Queens of England by David Loades (extract)

The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey by Mary Luke

Uncrowned: Royal Heirs Who Didn’t Take The Throne by Ashley Mantle (extract)

The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt edited by John Gough Nichols

England’s Queens: The Biography by Elizabeth Norton

She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of England by Elizabeth Norton

Lady Jane Grey and the House of Suffolk by Alison Plowden

Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen by Alison Plowden

Mary Tudor: The First Queen by Linda Porter

They Saw It Happen 1485-1688 by C R N Routh

The Tower of London in the History of the Nation by A L Rowse (extract)

Lives of the Tudor Princesses by Agnes Strickland

Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey by Nicola Tallis

The House of Grey: Friends & Foes of Kings by Melita Thomas (extract)

Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England by Maureen Waller

The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black Legend of the Dudleys by Derek Wilson