Farewell Letters to the Duke of Suffolk


Lady Jane wrote two farewell letters to her father, the Duke of Suffolk. The shorter farewell message, was written in her prayerbook.

A full copy of her letter can be found in the following:

Child-Life and Girlhood of Remarkable Women by W H D Adams

Life of Lady Jane Grey and of Guildford Dudley her husband by Edward Baldwin

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 by Doyne C Bell

The Nine Days' Queen: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by Richard Davey

Acts and Monuments Volume VI by J Fox

The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey by Mary Luke

Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: With a Memoir of Her Life by Nicholas H Nicolas

Lady Jane: From the screenplay by David Edgar by A C H Smith

Lives of the Tudor Princesses by Agnes Strickland

Documents of Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen of England 1553 by James D Taylor Jr

State Trials, 1 Mary, 1553 and others for High Treason


Extracts can be found in the following:

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 by Doyne C Bell

Lady Jane Grey by Hester W Chapman

Tales from the Tower of London by Daniel Diehl and Mark P Donnelly

Jane Grey Reine De 9 Jours (1537-1554) by Marguerite Fronville

Silent But For The Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works edited by Margaret Patterson Hannay

Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by George Howard

She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of England by Elizabeth Norton

Lady Jane Grey and the House of Suffolk by Alison Plowden

Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen by Alison Plowden

The House of Tudor by Alison Plowden

Mary Tudor: The First Queen by Linda Porter

Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England by Maureen Waller

Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir


Copies of the shorter farewell message can be found in the following:

Child-Life and Girlhood of Remarkable Women by W H D Adams

Lady Jane Grey by Hester W Chapman

The Nine Days' Queen: Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by Richard Davey

Jane Grey Reine De 9 Jours (1537-1554) by Marguerite Fronville

Lady Jane Grey and Her Times by George Howard

The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait Gallery of Lady Jane Grey by Mary Luke

Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: With a Memoir of Her Life by Nicholas H Nicolas

Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen by Alison Plowden

Lives of the Tudor Princesses by Agnes Strickland

Documents of Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen of England 1553 by James D Taylor Jr

Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir. Extract only.






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