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Lady Jane Grey

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I have just finished reading a book about Lady Jane Grey. Her story is so sad. Has anyone else read it? It is called 'Innocent Traitor'. Its just not air the way she was treated! :cry:

 

I feel quite strongly about it - i just can't believe the way people got treated in the Tudor times! (she was Henry the Eighth's grand neice!)

 

 

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She was technically queen for nine days after henry VIII's son Edward died at sixteen. She was his first cousin, and his sister Mary (who became Bloody Mary) was a catholic and he wanted the next monarch to be protestant - so he named her his successor on his deathbed. But Mary raised a rebellion and took the throne back. Lady Jane was beheaded. Her mother was a complete fright and the poor girl was treated very badly indeed.

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When I was at Junior school we went to the tower of london for a school trip and at the same time we did a project on the tudors and stuarts etc etc. The whole thing scared me senseless. I didn't sleep for about a year :shock: Lady Jane Grey and Anne Bolyn were the two that stuck in my mind and I made my mum put my 'girls world' away before bed as I'd wake up in the night, see that on top of my wardrobe and cry!! Funny what you remember, but seriously, women in those times had it tough. No say whatsover and in the court of the king - heads off at any given turn!

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When we done our A levels we could chose any topic within a certain era to do our written work worth one module one and I chose Mary 1 (Bloody Mary) - the title was to do with wheather she actually deserved the title 'bloody'?!

It was fascinating reading, she got a particularly bad press when you think of what the spanish inquisition was up to at the same time!!

 

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If you enjoyed that book, I would really recommend Phillipa Gregorys Tudor series, which are fantastic.

'The other Boleyn girl' is an all time favourite of mine, although it is a bit saucy in places :lol:

 

I believe her new book, which has just been released in hardback is about LJG.

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Yep, Innocent Traitor is a great book, and I'd also heartly recommend the phillipa gregory tudor series too, I recently finished The Boleyn Inheritance which is about the wife of Anne Boleyn's brother, who gave evidence at their trial..and it's all very complicated and compelling!! Oh and also about Anne of Cleves Henry's fourth very lucky wife who managed to get away...

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Managed to get away?? He wouldn't (or couldn't, some say) have anything to do with her! :lol:

 

I'm sure she came to see it as a lucky escape though, especially when she heard what happened to poor Catherine Howard (5th wife, Anne Boleyn's cousin and very young)

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Having lived in York, I am a huge fan of Richard III and consider all the Tudors as usurpers! :lol:

 

It is my facourite period in history. Fascinating times. :shock: I have also read a load of historical fiction about this period, but not the book you mentioned. Sounds interesting. :D

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Just remember though that these are fictionalised accounts and really can't be taken as fact - The Tudors on tv, in particular, trampled through history with a bare smattering of factual content :lol:, Having said that, I recently tried to read a proper biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine and abandoned it as it was nowhere near as interesting as the various historical romance accounts of her life and times!

 

 

I regularly re read the whole series, something I only do with a few books, Harry Potter, No 1 ladies detective Agency & now Twilight being the others.

 

Cinnamon, you and I have similar tastes in reading matter! I discovered Twilight just before Christmas and read it through twice in a couple of days! Hubby bought me the next 3 books for Christmas and I barely moved from the sofa for a week until I'd finished them all!

 

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Cinnamon, you and I have similar tastes in reading matter! I discovered Twilight just before Christmas and read it through twice in a couple of days! Hubby bought me the next 3 books for Christmas and I barely moved from the sofa for a week until I'd finished them all!

 

Jo

 

I have just wrested the third book from my daughter & am already, a day & a half later, halfway through it.

They really are very good & really gripping 8)

 

I always re read the 'His Dark materials' books too - brilliant.

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Having lived in York, I am a huge fan of Richard III and consider all the Tudors as usurpers! :lol:

 

Tee hee me too! (tho I don't live in York) Have been a member of the Richard III soceity all my life, my mum brought me up on that history and literature, even did my dissertation on 'Shakespeare's Representation of Richard III in three film adaptations'! Great play, but totally historically inaccurate!!

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I couldn't agree more, Chickpea! It was my Mum who turned me on to the "TRUTH" too. What else would you expect from Shakespeare? What with him being a Tudor playwright?

 

Well done on the dissertation! :clap:

 

And don't get me started on the overpainted "hump" in the most famous painting of him.

 

There are more versions -- the count is reaching twenty -- of the panel portrait of Richard III than of other fifteenth century English kings. The bulk of them derive from the portrait in the Royal Collection based on a contemporary image, since the costume and jewellery are convincing. The actual picture, however, was not painted until early in the reign of Henry VIII. It was altered shortly thereafter to suggest a hump back, tight lips and half-closed eyes. Later images, all reflecting the 'doctored' portrait in the Royal Collection, come from Long Gallery series, some of which have been broken up and dispersed.

 

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Apologies for hijacking the thread! I'll get of my soapbox now. :lol:

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The Lady Jane Grey painting is in the National Gallery. We often pop in when we take the children to a Kerrang concert before hitting Yo Sushi. It is my favourite painting. I spend ages looking at all the details - the dress is so beautiful (the photo doesn't do it justice though) it's silky/satiny look just jumps out at you. It is such a sad story and I would like to read the book too, so thank you for mentioning it.

Then to cheer up I go to the Stubbs paintings while OH likes the architectural Italian ones.

 

DS lent me "His Dark Materials" - preferred it to HP.

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