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Winter King Reviews – Updated 22/10/11

The Winter King Review by Leanda de Lisle – The Spectator – 3rd October 2011 The Winter King Review by John Guy – The Financial Times – 30th September 2011 A vivid new portrait of one of the forgotten men … Continue reading

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The Queen’s Agent – Talk at the NPG

John Cooper (author of ‘The Queen’s Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I’), is giving a talk at the National Portrait Gallery on 6th October. More details can be found here: The Queen’s Agent – NPG

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Frances Grey’s Date of Remarriage, Revisited by Susan Higginbothan

Another article by Susan Higginbothan at History Refreshed. This time focussing on the date that the mother of Lady Jane Grey remarried. Frances Grey’s Date of Remarriage, Revisited

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Syon Park

Syon Park In September 2011 I visited Syon Park. It was here in July 1553 that Lady Jane Grey was told she was Queen of England. Syon is the home of the current Duke of Northumberland and is situated on … Continue reading

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Books 2011: On Sale Today – The Winter King by Thomas Penn

29th September – Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn ‘He were a dark prince, and infinitely suspicious, and his times full of secret conspiracies and troubles’, Sir Francis Bacon It was 1501. England had been ravaged … Continue reading

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