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Anne Boleyn Files Article about the Execution of Lady Jane Grey

Claire at ‘The Anne Boleyn Files’ has an article about the executions of Lord Guildford Dudley and Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey’s Execution

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Update on new biography of Mary Tudor Brandon

Last month I posted about the new biography of Mary Tudor Brandon (grandmother of Lady Jane Grey). ‘The French Queen’s Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe’ by Erin A Sadlack will be published by … Continue reading

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Lady Jane Grey portrait shown on Countryfile

On Countryfile yesterday, they visited Dunham Massey a National Trust property in Cheshire. You get a glimpse of a Lady Jane Grey portrait. Those in the UK can watch this programme until next weekend at BBCiplayer. The report on Dunham … Continue reading

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She-Wolves turned into TV documentary

Helen Castor (author of ‘She Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth’) has told me that she is currently working with BBC4 on 3 documentaries based on ‘She Wolves’ to be broadcast in 2012.

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On this day…6th February

The Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat P. 45 ‘Note, that on shryve-tuesdaye, being the vjth of Februarye, master Wyat departed out of Southwarke towards Kyngeston … Continue reading

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