Portrait of Lady Jane Grey.

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

Steel engraving, 238 x 176mm. Portrait of Lady Jane Grey with ornate decorative frame. Caption reads: 'From the original in the collection of the Right Honourable The Earl of Stamford and Warrington'. Engraved by H.T.Ryall. Published by John Tallis & Company, London and New York, no date. Lady Jane Grey (1537 - 1554), a great-granddaughter of King Henry VII, was proclaimed Queen of England for nine days during 1553 in an unsuccessful bid to prevent the accession of the Catholic Mary Tudor. When Mary was proclaimed Queen, Jane, her husband, Lord Gilford Dudley, and her father were imprisoned in the Tower of London. She and her husband were tried for high treason in November 1553, found guilty and sentenced to death. They were both beheaded at Tower Hill on February 12th 1554.

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Amy Cooke

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PWD box 50.

02/08/2007