Historian and author of ‘The Turbulent Crown – The Story of the Tudor Queens,’ Roland Hui has written about a possible source for the Streatham portrait.
Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey)
(c) National Portrait Gallery
The ‘Lady Jayne’ portrait, which was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery in November 2006, is currently on display in Australia at the Bendigo Art Gallery.
‘Hever on Stage & Screen’ exhibition opened at Hever Castle last week.
Running until November, the exhibition features costumes, posters and information about films and tv programmes that were filmed at Hever.
The exhibition includes 2 dresses from ‘Anne of a Thousand Days’ and some behind the scenes photos from the filming of ‘Lady Jane’ starring Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Elwes.
Thank you to Owen Emmerson for permission to use his tweet.
Further details about the exhibition are available at: Hever on Stage & Screen
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Sarah-Beth Watkin’s new book focuses on the three surviving daughters of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. Their two other daughters (Anne and Catherine) died young. While the stories of the future Charles II and James II are well-known, this book goes someway to putting their sisters in the spotlight.
The events of the Civil War meant that the Princesses Mary, Elizabeth and Henrietta-Anne lived very different lives. Mary, the eldest daughter, married Prince William II of Orange, which was partly to help fund her father’s campaign. Elizabeth spent most of the war in the hands of the parliamentarians. Along with her brother Henry, she famously saw her father on the day before his execution to say goodbye. Henrietta-Anne was born during the war itself, and had to be smuggled out of England by her governess, to join her mother in France and later married into the French Royal family.
As with Watkin’s previous books, this is a fast-paced, fascinating look at the lives of her subjects. Although all three sisters died before reaching 30, Watkins shows how their fortunes were linked to the status of their brother and fell and rose accordingly. It is a great starting point for anyone wanting to find out more about these Stuart Princesses.
Thank you to Chronos Books for my review copy
‘The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books.
One of the earliest known Scottish queens was none other than the notorious Lady MacBeth. Was she really the wicked woman depicted in Shakespeare’s famous play? Was St Margaret a demure and obedient wife? Why did Margaret Logie exercise such an influence over her husband, David II, and have we underestimated James VI’s consort, Anne of Denmark, frequently written off as a stupid and wilful woman? These are just a few of the questions addressed by Dr Marshall in her entertaining, impeccably researched book.’
Further details – Amazon.co.uk
I am honoured to be the expert speaker at the Tudor Society for May.
If you are a member of the society, you can listen to my talk about Lady Jane here
