Leanda de Lisle, author of ‘After Elizabeth: The Death of Elizabeth and the Coming of King James’ has contacted me to let me know about her new book.
‘The Sisters Who Would Be Queen – The Tragedy of Katherine, Mary and Lady Jane Grey’ will be published by Harper Collins in the UK in early 2009.
Read more at Harper Collins –The Sisters Who Would be Queen.
Available from Amazon.co.uk – The Sisters Who Would be Queen.
’Mary Tudor’ by Judith Richards has been published by Routledge.
Read more at the Routledge site – Mary Tudor
Also available from Amazon.co.uk – Mary Tudor
According to Alison Weir’s website, she is giving a talk on ‘The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey’ at the English Heritage Festival of History on July 20th.
For details see the ‘Events’ section of her website.
Terry Grimley in ‘The Birmingham Post.net’ writes about the ‘Portraits from Chequers: Kings, Queens and Revolutionaries’ exhibition at Compton Verney in Warwickshire.
The exhibition includes a portrait of Lady Mary Grey which has been ascribed to Hans Eworth
An article in the Times about Althorp, home of the Spencer family, mentions the Lady Jane Grey portrait that they own.
Every room at Althorp tells a story, says Charles Spencer
View the portrait at the Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum
