{"id":155,"date":"2012-08-16T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T12:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.ladyjanegrey.info\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:30:26","slug":"letter-to-katherine-grey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?page_id=155","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Katherine Grey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>Lady Jane wrote a farewell letter to her sister, Katherine.  The letter was written in her Greek Testament, which she bequeathed to her sister.<\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>A full copy of this letter can be found in the following:<br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<p><b>The Race for Elizabeth I&#8217;s Throne: Rival Tudor Cousins<\/b> by Beverley Adams<\/p>\n<p><b>The Tragic Life of Lady Jane Grey<\/b> by Beverley Adams<\/p>\n<p> <b> Child-Life and Girlhood of Remarkable Women <\/b> by W H D Adams <\/p>\n<p> <b> Notices of the Historic Persons Buried in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London: with an account of the discovery of the supposed remains of Queen Anne Boleyn <\/b> by Doyne C Bell <\/p>\n<p><b>Lady Katherine Grey: A Dynastic Tragedy<\/b> by Conor Byrne<\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey: Nine Day Queen of England <\/b> by Faith Cook <\/p>\n<p> <b> The Nine Days&#8217; Queen: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times <\/b> by Richard Davey <\/p>\n<p> <b> Acts and Monuments VI <\/b> by J Fox <\/p>\n<p> <b> The Story of Lady Jane Grey (Essay in Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey)<\/b> by John Guy <\/p>\n<p> <b> Silent But For The Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works <\/b> edited by Margaret Patterson Hannay <\/p>\n<p> <b> The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey<\/b> by Mary Luke <\/p>\n<p> <b> Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: With A Memoir of Her Life <\/b> by Nicholas H Nicolas. (This book contains 2 slightly different versions of Jane&#8217;s letter to Katherine.)<\/p>\n<p> <b> Lives of the Tudor Princesses <\/b> by Agnes Strickland <\/p>\n<p> <b> Documents of Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen of England 1553 <\/b> by James D Taylor Jr <\/p>\n<p> <b> State Trials, 1 Mary, 1553 and others for High Treason <\/b> <\/p>\n<p><BR><\/p>\n<p> Extracts can be found in the following:<\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey <\/b> by Hester W Chapman <\/p>\n<p><b>Exploring the Lives of Women 1558-1837<\/b> by Louise Duckling and Sara Read et al<\/p>\n<p> <b> Two Tudor Portraits: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Lady Katherine Grey <\/b> by Hester W Chapman <\/p>\n<p> <b> Raven Queen <\/b> by Pauline Francis <\/p>\n<p> <b> Jane Grey Reine De 9 Jours (1537-1554) <\/b> by Marguerite Fronville <\/p>\n<p> <b> Early Modern English Noblewomen and Self-Starvation: The Skull Beneath the Skin<\/b> by Sasha Garwood<\/p>\n<p> <b> Arbella: England&#8217;s Lost Queen <\/b> by Sarah Gristwood <\/p>\n<p><b>Tudor Executions<\/b> by Helene Harrison<\/p>\n<p><b>Killing Monarchs: Regicide in the Tudor and Stuart Age <\/b> by Richard Heath<\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey and Her Times <\/b> by George Howard <\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery <\/b> by Eric Ives <\/p>\n<p><b> Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London <\/b> by Nigel Jones <\/p>\n<p><b>The Lost Kings: Lancaster, York &#038; Tudor<\/b> by Amy Licence<\/p>\n<p> <b>The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey<\/b> by Leanda de Lisle <\/p>\n<p><b>Tudor: The Family Story<\/b> by Leanda de Lisle <\/p>\n<p> <b> Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth <\/b> by Mary S Lovell. (1 line only). <\/p>\n<p><b>Uncrowned: Royal Heirs Who Didn&#8217;t Take The Throne<\/b> by Ashley Mantle. (1 line only). <\/p>\n<p> <b> The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor <\/b> by Elizabeth Norton <\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen <\/b> by Alison Plowden <\/p>\n<p> <b> Lady Jane Grey and the House of Suffolk<\/b> by Alison Plowden <\/p>\n<p> <b> The House of Tudor <\/b> by Alison Plowden <\/p>\n<p> <b>  She Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth <\/b> by Helen Castor (1 line only)<\/p>\n<p> <b> Bradgate Park: Childhood Home of Lady Jane Grey <\/b> by Joan Stevenson and Anthony Squires (1 line only). <\/p>\n<p><b>Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey<\/b> by Nicola Tallis<\/p>\n<p><b>The House of Grey: Friends &#038; Foes of Kings<\/b> by Melita Thomas<\/p>\n<p> <b> Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII <\/b> by Alison Weir <\/p>\n<p> <b> Innocent Traitor <\/b> by Alison Weir<\/p>\n<p> <b> Teen Queen: Looking for Lady Jane <\/b> by Cynthia Zarin (The New Yorker) (1 line only).<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Jane wrote a farewell letter to her sister, Katherine. The letter was written in her Greek Testament, which she bequeathed to her sister. A full copy of this letter can be found in the following: The Race for Elizabeth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?page_id=155\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":153,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-155","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19539,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions\/19539"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}