Bradgate Park Trust marked the 464th anniversary of Lady Jane’s execution with a Tulip procession.
Photographer, Mark Kent, took some wonderful photos of the event.
Thank you to Mark for letting me use his photos.
You can view the rest at Mark Kent Photography.
I wrote this article for the Lady Jane issue of the Tudor Society’s ‘Tudor Life Magazine.
Richard Davey and…the Execution of Lady Jane Grey. This article originally appeared in the Tudor Society’s February 2015 edition of ‘Tudor Life Magazine’ as ‘Lady Jane Grey’s Death and Burial.’
Events by Place – Tower of London
Plaque commemorating Jane, Guildford, Henry, Duke of Suffolk and others in St Peter ad Vincula.
(c) Lara Eakins
Prayer book message to Sir John Brydges
(c) British Library
Moments before her execution, Lady Jane made the customary scaffold speech.
In the days before the execution, Lady Jane composed a farewell message to her father and a letter to her sister, Katherine.
Farewell Message to her Father
(c) British Library
Farewell Letter to Katherine Grey
Both de Lisle and Ives agree that Jane wanted her dialogue with Feckenham to be published, ‘Given the little time she had to write between his final visit and the end, this says much of her determination that her death should have meaning. (p.257, Ives)
De Lisle suggests that perhaps ‘Jane had not forgotten Anne Askew, burned for heresy by Henry VIII in 1546, and whose arguments with her persecutors had been recorded for posterity. Jane intended to preserve the best of her exchanges also.’ (p.146, de Lisle)
Lady Jane’s conference with Dr Feckenham
Sources
De Lisle, L. (2009) The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey, Harper Collins.
Ives, E. (2009) Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, Wiley-Blackwell.
