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Lady Jane Grey, The Nine Days’ Queen Of England Who Was Executed By Mary I
King Edward VI of England died after a long illness at the age of 15. To the shock of many, the crown passed not to his elder ...
The New York Times2y
Behind Every Monarch, an Art Alliance
“The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England ... Last come Edward’s two older half sisters, by two mothers, of two faiths: Mary and Elizabeth, Catholic and Protestant, England ...
Smithsonian Magazine1y
The Myth of ‘Bloody Mary,’ England’s First Queen
Mary and Elizabeth rode into England’s capital side ... Mary stands second from left in this circa 1545 painting titled The Family of Henry VIII. Royal Collection Trust If numbers are the ...
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Gospel in Art: Feast of The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
As we come to the last day of May, the month traditionally dedicated to Our Lady, and as we celebrate the Feast of the ...
Chicago Tribune2mon
This portrait may be the only one of England’s 9-day queen painted during her lifetime
But that painting, like the few others that purport ... the 15-year-old Edward wanted to bypass his older sisters Mary and Elizabeth, and named Lady Jane his heir to prevent the realm reverting ...
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Rare ghostly image of Mary Queen of Scots discovered hidden beneath artwork
Mary was a prisoner of Queen Elizabeth in England ... It is possible that Vanson’s previously unknown and never completed painting was based at least in part on one of those miniatures.