Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide

My review of ‘1000 Tudor People’ by Melita Thomas

Posted on 29th April 2024 by Tamise

‘1000 Tudor People’ is a must have for anyone with an interest in the Tudor period. Included in the 1000 are royalty, consorts, nobility and ordinary people.

As well as biographies, this richly illustrated book covers a wealth of other information including life in the Tudor world, a comprehensive time line of events, family trees of the royal and leading noble families and lists of Archbishops, Lord Chancellors and Knights of the Garter.

The biographies include Lady Jane, her sisters, Katherine and Mary, her parents, her in-laws and some of her brothers and sisters in-law.

This will take pride of place on my Tudor bookshelves.

Thank you to Graffeg Books for my review copy

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Books 2024 – on sale today – The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens

Posted on 25th April 2024 by Tamise

‘Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen’s ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an appropriately timed gift, a well-negotiated marriage alliance were all forms of political agency wielded expertly by women.

The Waiting Game explores the daily lives of ladies-in-waiting, revealing the secrets of recruitment, costume, what they ate, where (and with whom) they slept. We meet María de Salinas, who travelled to England with Catherine of Aragon when just a teenager and spied for her during the divorce from Henry VIII. Anne Boleyn’s lady-in-waiting Jane Parker was instrumental in the execution of not one, but two queens. And maid-of-honour Anne Basset kept her place through the last four consorts, negotiating the conflicting loyalties of her birth family, her mistress the Queen, and even the desires of the King himself. As Henry changed wives, and changed the very fabric of the country’s structure besides, these women had to make choices about loyalty that simply didn’t exist before. The Waiting Game is the first time their vital story has been told.’

From – Amazon.co.uk

Further details – W&N

Further details – Amazon.co.uk

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‘Three Queens’ by Rosamund Gravelle at the Barons Court Theatre – 23 April to 11 May

Posted on 23rd April 2024 by Tamise

‘Three Queens’ by Rosamund Gravelle, opened tonight at the Barons Court Theatre in London.

‘February, 1554.

Queen Mary wears the crown of a nation divided by religion. Before the dawn breaks, confessions will be made, prayers will be sent, and more than one life will hang in the balance.

Queen Mary is determined to save the soul of England. Future Queen Elizabeth is desperate to avoid her mother’s fate, and teenage Queen Jane Grey’s rebellion seeks to unravel everything.

Told in real time over one sleepless night, the play follows three women maneuvering for power, each carving out their place in history. ‘

From Barons Court Theatre

For further details and to buy tickets – Barons Court Theatre

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Books 2024 – Another book that features Jane to look forward to…

Posted on 12th April 2024 by Tamise

30 July – Tudor Executions: From Nobility To The Block by Helene Harrison

‘The Tudors as a dynasty executed many people, both high and low. But the nobility were the ones consistently involved in treason, either deliberately or unconsciously. Exploring the long sixteenth century under each of the Tudor monarchs gives a sense of how and why so many were executed for what was considered the worst possible crime and how the definition of treason changed over the period. This book examines how and why Tudor nobles like Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham; Queen Consort Anne Boleyn; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, fell into the trap of treason and ended up on the block under the executioner’s axe. Treason and the Tudor nobility seem to go hand in hand as, by the end of the sixteenth century and the advent of the Stuart dynasty, no dukes remained in England. How did this happen and why?’

From – Amazon.co.uk

Further details – Amazon.co.uk