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Lady Jane Grey was the eldest daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and his wife, Frances Brandon.The traditional view is that she was born at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire in October 1537, but more recent research indicates that she was born somewhat earlier, possibly in London, sometime before May 1537 [8] [9] or between May 1536 and February 1537. [10]
The "Streatham" portrait is an oil painting on panel from the 1590s believed to be a later copy of an earlier portrait of the English noblewoman and Queen Lady Jane Grey.It shows a three-quarter-length depiction of a young woman in Tudor-period dress holding a prayer book, with the faded inscription "Lady Jayne" or "Lady Iayne" in the upper-left corner.
Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford (née Parker; c. 1505 – 13 February 1542) was an English noblewoman. Her husband, George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, was the brother of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, and a cousin to King Henry VIII's fifth wife Catherine Howard, making Jane a cousin-in-law.
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey is an oil painting by Paul Delaroche, completed in 1833, which is now in the National Gallery in London. It was enormously popular in the decades after it was painted, but in the 20th century realist historical paintings fell from critical favour and it was kept in storage for many decades, for much of which it was thought lost.
JANE: "A Lady with a Jayne with a 'y,' and I'm named after someone who got their head cut off." Yikes! On top of that, Jane told Jimmy she was a tomboy growing up, and she couldn't take having ...
Lord Guildford Dudley was portrayed by John Mills in the 1936 film Tudor Rose, [49] Cary Elwes in the 1986 film Lady Jane, [50] Jacob Avery in the 2022 drama series Becoming Elizabeth, [51] and Edward Bluemel in the 2024 television series My Lady Jane. [52] He is also a character in Alison Weir's Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey (2007).
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Jane Dudley gave birth to 13 children, eight boys and five girls. [2] In most cases it is impossible to establish their birthdates exactly. An exception is Robert , the future favourite of Elizabeth I ; he was born in 1532 as the fifth son, and possibly after the eldest daughter Mary , who became the mother of the courtier-poet Philip Sidney .