Bradgate Park will be holding events this month to celebrate the reign of Queen Jane.
Details of ‘Queen of Bradgate Park’ events can be found here:
Bradgate Park – Queen of Bradgate
Further details can be found in the Leicester Mercury – 8 events taking place at Bradgate Park to commemorate Lady Jane Grey
‘The elder daughter of Henry VIII, Mary I (1553-58) became England’s ruler on the unexpected death of her brother Edward VI. Her short reign is one of the great potential turning points in the country’s history. As a convinced Catholic and the wife of Philip II, king of Spain and the most powerful of all European monarchs, Mary could have completely changed her country’s orbit, making it a province of the Habsburg Empire and obedient again to Rome.
These extraordinary possibilities are fully dramatized in John Edward’s superb short biography. The real Mary I has almost disappeared under the great mass of Protestant propaganda that buried her reputation during her younger sister, Elizabeth I’s reign. But what if she had succeeded?’
Further details – Amazon.co.uk
25th June marks the 485th anniversary of the death of Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Duchess of Suffolk.
Mary’s tomb
St Mary’s Church – Bury St Edmunds
My Lady Jane Grey rose has bloomed again.
E.C. Fremantle has picked the winners at random. Thank you to everyone who entered the competition.
Congratulations to the following, who have won a copy of ‘The Poison Bed.’
Pat
Jill
Deb
Igor
Leila
