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- The Grey girls were the granddaughters of King Henry VIII's beautiful younger sister, Princess Mary. Their mother Lady Frances Brandon had been raised at the Tudor court as an extended member of the royal family as a first cousin of Henry's three children, Mary, Elizabeth and Edward.
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Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (born Elizabeth Howard; c. 1480 – 3 April 1538) was an English noblewoman, noted for being the mother of Anne Boleyn and as such the maternal grandmother of Elizabeth I of England.
Lady Jane Grey (c. 1537 – 12 February 1554), also known as Lady Jane Dudley after her marriage and as the "Nine Days' Queen", was an English noblewoman who claimed the throne of England and Ireland from 10 to 19 July 1553.
LADY JANE GREY: THE NINE-DAYS` QUEEN. (A guest article by author and historian Alison Weir.) A little over 450 years ago, a young girl of sixteen, Lady Jane Grey, was proclaimed Queen of England. She is famous because her reign was to last for only nine days, and she met a tragic end. Of all the traitors executed in the Tower of London, her ...
Oct 20, 2012 · October 20, 2012 by Natalie. Lady Jane Grey, engraving published 1620. On the morning of 12 February 1554, a petite girl of seventeen, with sandy-red hair and intelligent, sparkling brown eyes, stood awaiting her death on a scaffold by the White Tower in the Tower of London. Her ladies, Mistress Allan and Elizabeth Tilney, wept by her side but ...
The exact date of Elizabeth’s marriage to Thomas Boleyn is unknown but her jointure was settled on her in 1501 suggesting a recent marriage some time after 1498 (Ives, pg. 17). In a letter that Thomas Boleyn wrote Thomas Cromwell in 1536, after his world was turned upside down by the execution of Anne and George, he stated that his wife ...
May 22, 2023 · Portrait of John Aylmer, bishop of London, by an unknown artist, c.1577-1592. However, we must remember the context this was written in; Elizabeth was queen, so it was necessary to flatter and praise her, particularly in contrast with her sister. This anecdote may have been pure invention, created to flatter the Queen and perhaps prompt her to ...
The Old Palace of Hatfield was one of the most significant places in the life of Elizabeth I. It was to Hatfield that the 3-month-old princess was brought from London to establish her first household under the watchful eye of Sir John and Lady Shelton, the uncle and aunt of Anne Boleyn.
