Claire | February 23, 2013

On this day in history, 23rd February 1554, Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, was executed on Tower Hill following his involvement in the failed rebellion against Mary I – Wyatt’s Rebellion – and his attempt to flee the country. Suffolk’s daughter and son-in-law, Lady Jane Grey and Lord Guildford Dudley, had been executed eleven days […]

Category: Lady Jane Grey, Tudor Characters | 15 Comments »
Tags: Henry Grey, Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey, Wyatt's Rebellion

Claire | March 28, 2011

Today we have the penultimate part of Nancy Smith’s series on the Tower of London’s ghosts:- Monarchs Who Never Were – Hauntings at the Tower of London Part 3 by Nancy Smith The next two Tower of London hauntings are especially tragic, because of the advanced age of one if the victims, the youth of […]

Category: Anne Boleyn Places, Henry VIII, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I, Monarchy, Myths and Legends, Tudor Characters | 24 Comments »
Tags: Countess of Salisbury, Guildford Dudley, Henry Grey, Henry VIII, John Dudley, Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Pole, Mary I, Tower of London, Wyatt's Revolt