Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide

And the winners are…

Posted on 15th June 2016 by Tamise

Elizabeth Fremantle has picked the 5 winners at random. Congratulations to:

Marie
Glenda
Alex
Jo
Sophie

Thank you to everyone who entered the competition.

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My 2015 ‘Henry VIII’s Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors’ interview with David Baldwin

Posted on 15th June 2016 by Tamise

When ‘Henry VIII’s Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors’ was published in March last year, David Baldwin very kindly answered my questions.

Interview with David Baldwin.

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Books 2016 – on sale today – Henry VIII’s Last Love by David Baldwin (paperback)

Posted on 15th June 2016 by Tamise

15 June 2016 – Henry VIII’s Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors (paperback) by David Baldwin

‘In 1533 Katherine Willoughby married Charles Brandon, Henry VIII’s closest friend. She would go on to serve at the court of every Tudor monarch bar Henry VII and Mary Tudor.

Duchess of Suffolk at the age of fourteen, she became a powerful woman ruling over her houses at Grimsthorpe and Tattershall in Lincolnshire and wielding subtle influence through her proximity to the king. She grew to know Henry well. In 1538, only three months after Jane Seymour’s death, it was reported that they had been ‘masking and visiting’ together, and in 1543 she became a lady-in-waiting to his sixth wife, Catherine Parr. Henry had a reputation for tiring of his wives once the excitement of the pursuit was over, and in February 1546, only six months after Charles Brandon’s death, it was rumoured that Henry intended to wed Katherine Willoughby himself if he could end his present marriage.

This is the remarkable story of a life of privilege, tragedy and danger, of a woman who nearly became the seventh wife of Henry VIII.’

From Amazon.co.uk

Further details – Amazon.co.uk

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Another new ‘Jane’ book to look forward to…

Posted on 6th June 2016 by Tamise

Stephan Edwards (author of ‘A Queen of a New Invention: Portraits of Lady Jane Grey Dudley, England’s Nine Days Queen’) has a new book about Jane coming out in mid July.

‘The Lady Jane Grey’s Prayer Book’ is a fully illustrated and transcribed version of the British Library Harley Manuscript 2342, which Lady Jane carried to her execution on 12th February 1554. Edwards’ book also includes a detailed introduction to the prayer book and a brief history of Jane’s life.

The prayer book contains messages that Jane and her husband, Guildford, wrote to Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk and a message from Jane to John Brydges (the Lieutenant of the Tower of London).