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🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Recent news suggests that the Wrest Park portrait may depict none other than Lady Jane Grey. In today’s episode, I’m joined by art historian Melanie Taylor and historian and author Sylvia Barbara Soberton to explore the evidence. Who is the true sitter—Jane Grey or someone else? Let’s find out.
English Heritage article on the portrait
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Credits:
Host: Rebecca Larson
Guests: Melanie V. Taylor & Sylvia Barbara Soberton
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0:00.0 | The Tudor's Dynasty podcast. |
0:03.0 | Hello and welcome back to Tudor's Dynasty and Beyond. |
0:06.0 | And today I am very excited to welcome back to the show. |
0:10.0 | Two of my favorite people, Mel Taylor and Sylvia Barbara Soberton. |
0:14.0 | Welcome, ladies. |
0:16.0 | Hi. |
0:17.0 | Hello, thank you for having me again. |
0:19.0 | Well, today I invited both of you here because we're going to talk about something that has been in the press and all over social media for the last couple of weeks in particular. |
0:30.5 | And that is a portrait that is by some believed to be Lady Jane Gray. |
0:37.5 | And I'm going to start with Sylvia. |
0:40.0 | Sylvia, why don't you introduce the portrait? |
0:42.9 | Tell everybody what it's called and we'll just kind of go from there. |
0:46.4 | So it's a Rest Park portrait and it's been announced in the news that this is very likely a portrait of Lady Jane Grey. |
0:57.0 | So England's, sorry, net six days, nine days queen. |
1:03.0 | So she was queen of England from 10 July of 1553 until she was deposed by her cousin, |
1:10.0 | married the first, Henry D.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E. 1553 until she was deposed by her cousin, married the first, Henry |
1:10.8 | did its elder daughter on 19 July 1553 and Jane was tragically executed on 12 February |
1:18.6 | 1554. Now we don't really have a description of what Jane Gray really looked like. There are no confirmed likenesses of her, so we don't really have a comparison. |
1:34.3 | There was this description of Jane Gray believed to be by an eyewitness. |
1:42.3 | That description says that she had small features, |
1:45.5 | that she had well-made nose, |
1:48.1 | that she had red hair, |
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