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The Sisters of Lady Jane Grey and Their Wicked Grandfather / Being the True Stories of the Strange Lives of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and the Ladies Katherine and Mary Grey, sisters cover

The Sisters of Lady Jane Grey and Their Wicked Grandfather / Being the True Stories of the Strange Lives of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and the Ladies Katherine and Mary Grey, sisters

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Richard Davey
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A narrative history recounts the fates of two royal cousins whose contested succession rights, grounded in royal wills and parliamentary acts, draw them into secret marriages, imprisonment, and public disgrace. It follows one sister’s clandestine union and the birth of heirs, and the other’s unequal marriage, both provoking harsh royal reprisals and long-term political anxiety. The account situates these episodes amid court intrigues and the career of their influential grandfather, examines the monarch’s personal and political responses, and explores how love, family loyalties, and dynastic claims combined to create lasting danger for those involved.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Lady Katherine Grey Frontispiece
From the original painting, by an unknown artist, in the possession of Mrs. Wright-Biddulph, bearing the following inscription—
“Now thus but like to change
And fade as dothe the flowre
Which springe and bloom full gay,
And wythrethe in one hour.”
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Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond xxviii
From the original portrait in the National Portrait Gallery.
Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk 4
From an engraving, after the original in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
Henry VIII (at the age of fifty-three) 20
From the original portrait in the National Portrait Gallery.
Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and Mary Tudor Taken Together 50
From an engraving, by Vertue, of the original portrait by Mabuse.
Lady Monteagle (younger daughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk) 62
From an engraving after Holbein.
Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk 74
From an engraving by Bartolozzi, of the original drawing, attributed to Holbein, in the King’s collection.
Frances Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, and Her Second Husband, Adrian Stokes 104
From an engraving by Vertue, after the original portrait by Lucas de Heere.
Mary Tudor, Queen of England 110
From a little-known portrait by Antonio Moro, in the Escurial.
Philip II, King of Spain 122
From a contemporary Spanish print.
Queen Elizabeth 134
From the original portrait, by F. Zucchero, at Hatfield.
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 156
From the original portrait, by Zuccaro, in the National Portrait Gallery.
William Cecil, Lord Burleigh 214
Sir Thomas Gresham 278
From a contemporary engraving.