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Historic travesty or juicy royal soap? The now canceled series My Lady Jane was both, playing fast and loose with history even as it introduced a new generation to the saga of the doomed Lady Jane ...
In the summer of 1553, a girl of around 16 was proclaimed the queen of England. Her name was Lady Jane Grey, and she ruled for just nine days before being executed at the Tower of London.
Lady Jane Grey, a teenage pawn in the power struggles that plagued the Tudor court, ruled England for just nine ... of the so-called “Nine Days Queen” painted before her death.
She was Queen of England for just nine days before being executed at age 17, marking the shortest reign in British history. Now new research suggests a portrait that has gone on display in Britain ...
She is perhaps best-known from Paul Delaroche’s painting, “The Execution of Lady Jane Grey,” which hangs in the National Gallery in central London. Jane, who may have been as young as 16, is ...
Lady Jane was executed on Tower Green at the Tower of London on February 12 1554 at the age of 17. English Heritage Conservator Rachel Turnbull gives this mysterious portrait a final examination ...
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LONDON (AP) — A painting that has gone on public display Friday could be the only portrait of England’s shortest-reigning queen, Lady Jane Grey, painted during her lifetime, according to the ...