Framlingham Castle, Suffolk. Owned by the powerful Howard family during the Tudor period, Mary I was proclaimed Queen of England here on 19th July 1553. Mary was based here when support for her rival for the throne, Lady Jane Grey, collapsed.

Astley Castle, Warwickshire, Feb 1554. On the run from Mary I's men, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk & father of Lady Jane Grey, tried to evade capture by hiding inside a hollow oak tree! He was eventually captured, & was beheaded on 23rd Feb for his role in the Wyatt Rebellion.

Unfortunately, the tree that Suffolk hid in has not survived. This monument is in its place (which itself has seen better days).

Stephan Edwards gives us another interesting read about a pendant thought to have once belonged to #LadyJaneGrey #Tudor #History somegreymatter.com/lady-jane-grey…

14 Sep 1553 The Emperor wrote to this Ambassadors ‘Although the Duke of Northumberland...is now executed; and although the Queen's clemency is worthy of praise, yet it will be well that she take care not to exercise it so as to prejudice the establishment of her reign.'

The new statue in the river Stour at Canterbury was partially inspired by research I’d done a few years back into a local suicide case that Shakespeare drew on: theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Also have a portrait of Arabella Stuart...

Books 2024 - on sale now - Planning the Murder of Anne Boleyn by Caroline Angus. Caroline Pen & Sword Books ladyjanegrey.info/?p=18539

#OTD in 1548. Thomas Seymour had changed his mind about returning Jane Grey home after the death of his wife. He wrote to Henry Grey reporting that he had decided to maintain Queen Katherine's household & wanted to keep Jane Grey. #History #Tudor #OnThisDay #LadyJaneGrey

Francis II - aged just 15 - was crowned King of #France #OTD in #Tudor times (1559, but several sources say it was actually the 21st). His consort, #MaryQueenofScots, became Queen of France. It didn't last, though; Francis died just over a year later and Mary was sent packing

#OTD 18 Sept 1535 #KatherineBrandon, 16yr old Duchess of Suffolk, gave birth to her 1st son, Henry He would inherit the Dukedom upon his father #CharlesBrandon’s death in 1545 Sadly dying of the sweat at 16, the same day as his younger brother Charles in 1551😥 Grimsthorpe Castle

18 Sept 1553: Mary I appoints Sir Nicholas Hare, a former Speaker of the House of Commons, 1539-40, as Master of the Rolls to replace Sir Robert Bowes #otd Hare was one of her most trusted advisers. (National Trust images, Petworth House)

Having mentioned Tintern earlier and with it being the #HarvestMoon last night, I'm saying "Goodnight" with Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon at Tintern Abbey. 19th cent tourists would travel to Tintern to watch the Harvest Moon rise, perfectly centred within the Rose Window.

#OTD in 1548. Henry Grey replied to Thomas Seymour's letter asking for Lady Jane Grey to be returned to her mother & not to stay at Sudeley with him. Frances Grey also wrote reinforcing the request. #History #Tudors #OnThisDay #LadyJaneGrey

19 Sept 1547: The last of Edward VI's surviving Latin letters is dated #otd (NPG)

#otd 1553 The Ambassadors wrote to Charles V, ‘It is not without good cause that we have repeated to your Majesty in our former letters that the kingdom of England is subject to changes, and its inhabitants capricious seekers after novelty;

each day brings forth fresh proof and new instances of it.  Last Sunday the Lady Elizabeth did not go to mass, and the Queen has sent us word that she has half-turned already from the good road upon which she had begun to travel. (c) Royal Collection

Several intrigues are being hatched in her name, with her knowledge and encouragement, so that nothing is now certain, Sire, in this kingdom, either with respect to religion or the Queen's reign.

Many consider that the Queen should proceed against the rebel prisoners with prompt and exemplary justice. Her authority has suffered from the pecuniary compositions for offences, and people have come to judge her actions so freely that they go so far as to laugh at them.

The Queen, we hear, has therefore decided to take a different course as to the prisoners, and to order the four sons of the Duke of Northumberland, and Jane of Suffolk, to be tried and sentenced to receive capital punishment for the crimes they have committed.’