Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide

Medieval Women: In Their Own Words – British Library

Posted on 17th February 2025 by Tamise

Last month I visited this fabulous exhibition at the British Library.

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Competition – Win a signed copy of ‘Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen’ by Nicola Tallis

Posted on 13th February 2025 by Tamise

‘Nicola Tallis charts Elizabeth’s extraordinary story with sensitivity, scholarship and compassion, shedding light not only on Elizabeth’s apprentice years, but also her complete character.’

Jessie Childs

‘This colourful and immensely detailed biography charts Elizabeth’s turbulent and unstable upbringing, from the Wyatt Rebellion – a plot to topple her half-sister, Mary, from her throne – to the predatory attentions of Sir Thomas Seymour and the heartbreaking rift with her beloved stepmother Katherine Parr. When Elizabeth became queen, she had already endured more tumult than many monarchs experienced in a lifetime, and this truly comprehensive account explores the dangers and tragedies that plagued her early life.‘

The paperback of ‘Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen’ by Nicola Tallis will be published in the UK by Michael O’Mara Books on 27th February.

Competition

To celebrate, The Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide offers you the chance to win a signed copy of this fascinating new biography.

Thanks to the generosity of Michael O’Mara Books, two readers can win a copy in a UK give-away!

To enter:

Email me at ljgcompetition at yahoo.co.uk. Replace ‘at’ with @.

The competition ends at midnight (UK time) on Tuesday 27th February.

The winners will be selected at random.

Good luck!

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February 1554

Posted on 12th February 2025 by Tamise

‘But my faith had armed my resolution to withstand any assault…’

Lady Jane’s conference with Dr Feckenham

‘I have sent you, my dear sister Katherine, a book…’

In the days before her execution, Jane wrote a farewell letter to her sister Katherine.

‘The Lorde comforte your grace…’

Jane also wrote a farewell message to her father, in the prayerbook she carried to the scaffold.

‘For, as the Precher sayethe, there is a tyme to be borne, and a tyme to dye…’

Jane wrote a farewell message to Sir John Brydges (the Lieutenant of the Tower), in the prayer book she carried to the scaffold.

‘Good people, I am come hether to die…

Jane and Guildford were executed at the Tower of London.

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Letter written during Wyatt’s Rebellion sells at auction

Posted on 7th February 2025 by Tamise

A letter written by Queen Mary I during Wyatt’s rebellion has sold at auction.

The letter mentions Lady Jane and that her father, Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk is involved in the rebellion.

The letter was auctioned by Lyon & Turnbull on 5th February 2025.

‘‘And whereas our traitor the Duke of Suffolk forgetting his naturall dutie of allegiaunce to god and us and our great mercie and grace lately shewed unto him in pardonying his horrible treatson perpetrated with the traitor the late Duke of Northumberland against our Royall personne, hath with John Graye and Thomas Graye his bretherne and the Carewes and Wyat of Kent with others conspired togithere to stirre our subjects in Kent and elsewhere to rebell against us pretending upon false rumors spredd that the prince of Spayne and the Spaniards shulde come in to conquer this realme, whiche the saide traitors make their onely grounde to buylde their onely treason on, tending thereby to blynde our good subjects while in very dede they trayterousely propose tadvaunce the Ladie Jane his daughter and Guldeford Dudley her husband, the saide Duke of Northumberlands son’.

From Lyon & Turnbull

Books 2025 – on sale today – Scotland’s Medieval Queens: From Saint Margaret to Margaret of Denmark by Sharon Bennett Connolly

Posted on 30th January 2025 by Tamise

‘Scotland’s history is dramatic, violent and bloody. Being England’s northern neighbour has never been easy. Scotland’s queens have had to deal with war, murder, imprisonment, political rivalries and open betrayal. They have loved and lost, raised kings and queens, ruled and died for Scotland. From St Margaret, who became one of the patron saints of Scotland, to Elizabeth de Burgh and the dramatic story of the Scottish Wars of Independence, to the love story and tragedy of Joan Beaufort, to Margaret of Denmark and the dawn of the Renaissance, Scotland’s Medieval Queens have seen it all. This is the story of Scotland through their eyes.’

From Amazon.co.uk

Further details – Pen & Sword Books

Further details – Amazon.co.uk