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Lady Jane Grey: Historians think they’ve unearthed the only portrait of England’s ‘nine-day queen’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lady-jane-grey-portrait-england-queen-b2710804.html

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A few verses from an anonymous 17th Century ballad about the fate of Lady Jane Grey.
From the Golden Garland of Princely Pleasures, 1620
Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Richard De Winter: tenor
Tamsin Lewis: alto
A lamentable Ditty on the death of the Lord Guilford Dudley, and the Lady Iane Gray, that for their parents ambition, in seeking to make these two yong Princes King and Queene of England, were both beheaded in the Tower of London.
To the tune of, Peter and Parnell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4K-40XRhGY

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On this date in 1553, Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen of England, only to be deposed by Mary I ten days later. Here are 10 things you might not know about her.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2020/07/10-july-lady-jane-grey.html

#OnThisDay, 10 July 1553, Lady Jane Grey is officially proclaimed Queen of England. She is usurped nine days later by her cousin Mary Tudor, and is beheaded in 1554.

We’ve written about Lady Jane Grey’s succession on our blog: https://carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-grey-history-a-tudor-succession/

Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554 CE) was briefly declared Queen of England for nine days in July 1553 CE following the death of her cousin Edward VI of England (r. 1547-1553 CE). Then only 16 and never officially crowned, Lady Jane was first an unknowing and then an unwilling pawn in a political coup orchestrated by John Dudley, the Earl of Northumberland (l. 1504-1553 CE) who was, in effect, Edward V...https://www.worldhistory.org/Lady_Jane_Grey/ #EdwardVIofEngland #LadyJaneGrey #TowerofLondon #History

#OTD 1568 d. Lady Katherine Grey, who believed herself to be the wife of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford aged only 27. Katherine was the sister of Lady Jane Grey, and was, according to the will of Henry VIII, the heir to Elizabeth’s throne She had been under arrest for seven years for marrying without royal consent. Elizabeth I had had the marriage declared void, and showed no sign of forgiving her cousin.http://bit.ly/1gzYe4V #histodons #katherinegrey #ladyjanegrey #historyofroyalwomen