| 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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| Facing page | |
| 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. | |