Jason Watkins & Lady Jane Grey: A Tower of London Special – Channel 5 – Monday 18 November at 9pm


Thank you to Coryne Hall for letting me know about this new TV programme!

‘Jason Watkins & Lady Jane Grey: A Tower of London Special’ is on Channel 5 in the UK on Monday 18 November at 9pm.


(c) TVGuide.co.uk


‘The actor tries to find the truth behind two family mysteries, with historian Tracy Borman helping discover whether he is related to John Brydges, the royal courtier responsible for overseeing the imprisonment and execution of Lady Jane Grey, England’s shortest-reigning queen. According to family legend, Jason could also be connected to another, even more famous figure, renowned Georgian author Jane Austen.’


From TVGuide.co.uk



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‘Mary I: Queen of Sorrows’ by Alison Weir added to the website….


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‘Mary I: Queen of Sorrows’ by Alison Weir added to the Fiction section of the bibliography.


Entries added to the following:

Primary Accounts – Chapel

Writings of Lady Jane Grey – Letters – Letter to Mary



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The Head of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk? – Stephan Edwards investigates….


Stephan Edwards writes about a mummified head that may belong to Henry Grey at his website, Some Grey Matter.


The Head of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk?



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Books 2024 – on sale today – Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been by Emily Murdoch Perkins



(c) The History Press


‘What queens would England have had if firstborn daughters, not firstborn sons, had inherited the throne?

We may think of princesses as dutiful and elegant, wearing long flowing dresses, but the eldest daughters of England’s kings have been very different.

Political intriguers. Abducted nuns who demanded divorces. Murderers.

It’s time we rediscovered the politicians we lost, the masterminds we see negotiating nunneries not armies, the personalities shining brilliantly even hundreds of years later: the queens who should have been.

Let’s meet them.’

From Amazon.co.uk

Further details – The History Press

Further details – Amazon.co.uk



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Books 2024 – on sale today – Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots by Jade Scott


(c) Michael O’Mara


‘A fascinating and revealing new biography of Mary Queen of Scots, drawing on dozens of newly decoded letters.

For almost two decades before her execution at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, Mary Queen of Scots was a prisoner. From her chambers, she wrote countless letters, many encrypted using complex ciphers to prevent her communications from being intercepted. In this way, she used language to exert her will and her influence, even while incarcerated.

More than 400 years after her death, fifty-seven of these encoded letters were unearthed in a French archive and decoded, a discovery described by experts as a ‘literary and historical sensation’ and the most important new find on Mary for more than a century.

In Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots, Jade Scott, a historian and expert on Mary’s correspondence, draws on these ground-breaking letters to paint a vivid portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures. She interrogates Mary’s complex relationships with friends and enemies throughout her imprisonment, illuminating her strategic expertise and bringing Mary’s captivity to life like never before, in her own words.’

From Amazon.co.uk

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