💙📚 Historian John Guy argued that “England was economically healthier, more expansive, and more optimistic under the Tudors” than at any time since the ancient Roman occupation.
John Guy (1988), Tudor England, Oxford University Press, p. 32. #Tudor #history #henryviii #maryi #ladyjanegrey
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The Tower of London, William Harrison Ainsworth
A dramatic historical romance set during the tragic reign of Lady Jane Grey, this Victorian classic brings the intrigue, danger, and legends of the Tower of London vividly to life.
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As #RememberingJaneGrey is coming to an end. I thought I would ask you what was it that introduced you to #LadyJaneGrey? Below is the book by R.J Unstead in which I first met Jane & read her story #Tudor #History #whendidyoumeetJane #Tudors
During February, I will be posting a daily image of #LadyJaneGrey to commemorate the 472nd anniversary of her death
Please join in & post your favourite images of Jane, places associated with her or artwork under the hashtag #RememberingJaneGrey #Tudors #History #QueenForThirteen
During February, I will be posting a daily image of #LadyJaneGrey to commemorate the 472nd anniversary of her death
Please join in & post your favourite images of Jane, places associated with her or artwork under the hashtag #RememberingJaneGrey #Tudors #History #QueenForThirteen
During February, I will be posting a daily image of #LadyJaneGrey to commemorate the 472nd anniversary of her death
Please join in & post your favourite images of Jane, places associated with her or artwork under the hashtag #RememberingJaneGrey #Tudors #History #QueenForThirteen
During February, I will be posting a daily image of #LadyJaneGrey to commemorate the 472nd anniversary of her death
Please join in & post your favourite images of Jane, places associated with her or artwork under the hashtag #RememberingJaneGrey #Tudors #History #QueenForThirteen
#OTD 23 Feb 1554
11 days after his daughter #9daysqueen #LadyJaneGrey, Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk met with the 🪓
Not for conspiring with John Dudley to put Jane on the throne (he was pardoned!) instead for his part in the Wyatt Rebellion
The Grey girls & his disputed mummified head!
#History
#OTD
23rd February 1554
Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, was executed on Tower Hill, just 11 days after his daughter, Lady Jane Grey.
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#HenryGrey #DukeofSuffolk #LadyJaneGrey #Tudors #History
During February, I will be posting a daily image of #LadyJaneGrey to commemorate the 472nd anniversary of her death
Please join in & post your favourite images of Jane, places associated with her or artwork under the hashtag #RememberingJaneGrey #Tudors #History #QueenForThirteen
#RememberingJaneGrey The coinage that never was! Early fantasy coins depicting images of #LadyJaneGrey & what could have been. #Tudors #History #Coin
During February, I will be posting a daily image of #LadyJaneGrey to commemorate the 472nd anniversary of her death
Please join in & post your favourite images of Jane, places associated with her or artwork under the hashtag #RememberingJaneGrey #Tudors #History #QueenForThirteen
#QueenMaryI and #LadyJaneGrey by George Frederick Folingsby. Oil on canvas and painted around 1860.
Currently in the collection of @artgallballarat
#RememberingJaneGrey #History #Tudors #Art #QueenForThirteen
#OTD 1554. Just five days after losing his daughter to the axe, Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk is taken to Westminster Hall to face trial. Henry Grey pleads not guilty to all charges however is sentence to death.
#History #LadyJaneGrey #Tudors #RememberingJaneGrey
During February, I will be posting a daily image of #LadyJaneGrey to commemorate the 472nd anniversary of her death
Please join in & post your favourite images of Jane, places associated with her or artwork under the hashtag #RememberingJaneGrey #Tudors #History #QueenForThirteen
During February, I will be posting a daily image of #LadyJaneGrey to commemorate the 472nd anniversary of her death
Please join in & post your favourite images of Jane, places associated with her or artwork under the hashtag #RememberingJaneGrey #Tudors #History #QueenForThirteen
#LadyJaneGrey in the Tower of London. By Heinrich von Angeli 1867. #History #Tudors #art #RememberingJaneGrey #Queenforthirteen
#OTD 12 Feb 1554
The ill fated #9daysqueen #LadyJaneGrey 16 & husband Guildford Dudley 19 had a date with the🪓
Convicted of treason Guildford was 1st on Tower Hill
Jane met the🪓within the Tower of London
Before the deed, she addressed the crowd eloquently with maturity & dignity that belied her age
Unknown Artist
Portrait presumed to be #LadyJaneGrey (1536/7-1554), #NineDaysQueen, who was executed #OnThisDay
ca. 1590s
National Portrait Gallery, London
#JaneGrey #JaneDudley #Tudor
Unknown Artist
The "Syon Portrait": Portrait presumed to be #LadyJaneGrey (1536/7-1554), #NineDaysQueen, who was executed #OnThisDay
ca. 1600
Syon House
#JaneGrey #JaneDudley #Tudor
Just before 10 o'clock in the morning, #onthisday in 1554, #GuildfordDudley was led from the #TowerofLondon to the scaffold erected on #TowerHill. Less than an hour later, #LadyJaneGrey was taken to another scaffold within the Tower, where she was also executed. #Tudors #History
#OTD
12th February 1554
Lady Jane Grey and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were executed for treason.
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#LadyJaneGrey #GuildfordDudley #Tudors #History
#OTD in 1554. Before noon, the 17 year old #LadyJaneGrey was executed within the walls of the Tower of London. Dressed entirely in black, this brave girl walked to her death reading from her small prayer book #History #RememberingJaneGrey #Tudors #OnThisDay
#OTD #TDIH #February12, 1554: #DOTD: #RIP #LadyJaneGrey.
#QueensOfEngland #LadyJaneDudley #TheNineDaysQueen #COfE #TowerOfLondon #QueensOfEngland #HouseOfGrey #RoyalSky #MusicSky
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According to a document printed in 1607 by Michelangelo Florio, #LadyJaneGrey passed her last hours of life 'in prayer, meditation, reading her bible and with thoughts of her family' Florio also states that Jane wrote a letter to her mother.
#History #Tudors #RememberingJaneGrey
Lord Guildford Dudley's message to Henry Grey
'Your loving and obedient son wishes unto your grace long life in this world with as much joy and comfort, as did I wished to myself'
Written in the #LadyJaneGrey prayer book. #RememberingJaneGrey #History #Tudors
#LadyJaneGrey wrote a farewell message to her father. 'The Lord comfort your Grace, and that in his word wherein all creatures only are to be comforted..Trust that we, by leaving this mortal life, have won an immortal life' #History #Tudors #RememberingJaneGrey
#OTD 1554. #LadyJaneGrey wrote a letter to her sister Catherine:
'Now as touching my death, rejoice as I do, my dearest sister, that I shall be delivered of this corruption, and put on incorruption.. Farewell once again, my beloved sister'
#History #Tudors #RememberingJaneGrey
#OTD in 1554. Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk was imprisoned in the Tower. Henry would also hear the news that his daughter #LadyJaneGrey and son in law Lord Guildford Dudley would die in two days time. #Tudors #History #RememberingJaneGrey #OnThisDay
This book explores the life and tragic fate of Lady Jane Grey, the nine-day queen of England, examining her role amid the political chaos following King Edward VI's death and her contested claim to the throne.
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/ynw6u3xd
#ladyjanegrey #tudorera #ladyjane
