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Lady Jane Grey became queen of England . ◾ born c.1536/1537 – executed.12 February 1554), also known as Lady Jane Dudley or The Nine Day Queen, was an English noblewoman and de facto monarch of England from 10 July until 19 July 1553. . ▪ The great-granddaughter of Henry VII through his younger daughter Mary, Jane was a first cousin once removed of Edward VI. In May 1553, she was married to Lord Guildford Dudley, a younger son of Edward’s chief minister, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. . ▪ When the 15-year-old king lay dying in June 1553, he nominated Jane as successor to the Crown in his will, thus subverting the claims of his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth under the Third Succession Act. . ▪ Jane was imprisoned in the Tower of London when the Privy Council decided to change sides and proclaim Mary as queen on 19 July 1553. . Jane was convicted of high treason in November 1553, which carried a sentence of death, although her life was initially spared. Thomas Wyatt’s rebellion of January & February 1554 against Queen Mary I’s plans to marry Philip of Spain led to the execution of both Jane & her husband. . ▪ Lady Jane Grey had an excellent humanist education & a reputation as one of the most learned young women of her day. A committed Protestant, she was posthumously regarded as not only a political victim but also a martyr. . Portrait by Henry Pierce Bone, 1844 . Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1553 #Queen #QueenofEngland #JaneGrey #LadyJaneGrey #LadyJaneDudley #Royalty #Royals #TheNineDayQueen #Monarchy #Royalty #EnglishMonarchy #Portraitpainting #RoyalCollection #HouseofTudor #TheTudors #Tudor #History #OnThisDay #historyinpictures #TudorHistory #Tudors #otd #BritishMonarchy #D10Jul #Monarch #Historic #thequeen (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRKPxPksCM4/?utm_medium=tumblr

On this day in royal history . 28th January 1457 . King Henry VII was born . . ◼ Henry was born at Pembroke Castle in Wales on 28 January 1457 to the 13-year-old Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond. His father, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, died three months before his birth. . ◼ Born Henry Tudor, he later became king Henry VII & was the founder of the Tudor dynasty, unifying the warring factions in the Wars of the Roses. Although supported by Lancastrians & Yorkists alienated by Richard III’s usurpation, Henry VII’s first task was to secure his position. In 1486 he married Elizabeth of York, eldest daughter of Edward IV, thus uniting the Houses of York & Lancaster. . ◼ Henry’s reign (1485-1509) was troubled by revolts, sometimes involving pretenders (such as Perkin Warbeck & Lambert Simnel) who impersonated Edward V or his brother. With this in mind, n 1485, Henry formed a personal bodyguard from his followers known as the ‘Yeomen of the Guard’ (the oldest military corps in existence today). . ◼ Henry strengthened the power of the monarchy by using traditional methods of government to tighten royal administration & increase revenues (reportedly including a daily examination of accounts). Royal income rose from an annual average of £52,000 to £142,000 by the end of Henry’s reign. Little co-operation between King & Parliament was required; during Henry’s reign of 24 years, seven Parliaments sat for some ten & a half months. . ◼ Henry used dynastic royal marriages to establish his dynasty in England & help maintain peace. One daughter, Margaret, was married to James IV of Scotland (from whom Mary, Queen of Scots & her son, James VI of Scotland & James I of England, were descended); the other daughter married Louis XII of France. . ▪ Henry spent money shrewdly & left a full treasury on his death in 1509. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayinHistory #HenryTudor #HenryVII #KingHenryVII #HisMajesty #HouseofTudor #TheTudors #Royalty #TheTudors #TudorDynasty #History #Monarchy #KingofEngland #EnglishMonarchy #D28Jan #BritishMonarchy #Pembroke #wales #Tudor #heritage #Theking #Monarch #artoftheday #RoyalCollection #onthisday #royalfamily #Historic #otd (at Pembroke Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKmx9EEjTV9/?igshid=65aw5wpvshwk

On This Day In Royal History . 15th January 1559 . 👑 Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England . . 1/2.) On 15th January 1559, a date chosen by her astrologer Dr John Dee, a triumphant Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn, processed from Westminster Hall into Westminster Abbey to be crowned queen. . ◼ She was just twenty five years old, was the third child of Henry VIII to become monarch, & was the longest reigning of them, ruling England for over 44 years. . ◼ Elizabeth’s coronation day began in Westminster Hall, which had been decorated with her father’s sumptuous tapestries & his collection of gold & gilt plate. . ◼ Blue cloth had been laid from the Hall to the Abbey, & Elizabeth, wearing her crimson parliament robes, processed along this cloth, which was then torn to shreds by people as souvenirs. . ◼ Elizabeth processed to the crossing in the Abbey & withdrew to a curtained enclosure to change. She was then led by Owen Oglethorpe, Bishop of Carlisle, up onto the stage, where he proclaimed her queen in each of the four corners, asking the congregation if they would have her for their queen & listening for their enthusiastic replies of “Yea! Yea!”. . ◼ Elizabeth then made the traditional offerings at the altar & sat in the throne of estate to listen to the sermon. . ◼ After the sermon, Elizabeth knelt for the Lord’s Prayer, took the oath, then withdrew to the traverse to change for the anointing part of the service. Wearing a kirtle of gold & silver & leaning on cloth of gold cushions, which had been placed before the altar, Elizabeth was anointed on the shoulder blades, breast, arms, hands & head. She was then dressed in white gloves, a white coif & the white dalmatic (tunic) of a deacon. . Continued in next post.. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #TheYear1559 #Thisdayinhistory #ElizabethI #QueenElizabethI #HouseofTudor #TheTudors #Tudor #TudorDynasty #History #RoyaltyinArt #VirginQueen #QueenofEngland #EnglishMonarchy #Elizabeth #BritishMonarchy #D15Jan #ElizabethIofengland #otd #OnThisDay #Elizabethan #TheQueen #RoyalFamily #royalhistory #Englishhistory #Queen #monarch #Monarchy #portraitpainting #tudorhistory (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKE3t7cBW9c/?igshid=db0cr3sx0xln

Katharine refused to accept Henry as supreme head of the Church in England & considered herself the king’s rightful wife & queen, attracting much popular sympathy. Despite this, she was acknowledged only as dowager princess of Wales by Henry. After being banished from court by Henry, she lived out the remainder of her life at Kimbolton Castle, & died there on 7 January 1536 of cancer. The English people held Katharine in high esteem, & her death set off tremendous mourning. . Katharine’s pregnancies & children; . A stillborn daughter, born 31 January 1510. Katharine was told she was carrying twins & that the other still lived, so the loss was kept secret as she prepared for the birth. No child came. . Henry, born 1 January 1511 - died 22 February 1511. He died suddenly, with no recorded cause of death. . A son, born c.17 September 1513. Either stillborn or lived for a few hours. . A stillborn son, born November/December 1514. Thomas Wolsey wrote in a letter on 15 November that Katharine was “to lie in shortly.” Two letters in December mention Katharine lost a child. . Mary, born 18 February 1516 - died 17 November 1558. Became Queen Mary I of England. . A stillborn daughter, born 10 November 1518 . . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #onthisday #otd #Royalhistory #Royalwedding #Tudor #Tudors #TudorHistory #TudorDynasty #HouseofTudor #TheTudors #History #EnglishMonarchy #Englishroyalty #EnglishHistory #kingsandqueens #England #weddingday #D11jun #KingofEngland #HenryVIII #KingHenryVIII #Theking #monarchy #Greenwich #QueenConsort, #Katharineofaragon #Katharineofaragon #historyinpictures (at Greenwich) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP_LUydD-ja/?utm_medium=tumblr

On This Day In Royal History . 28th January 1547 . King Henry VIII died . . ⬛ Henry’s obesity hastened his death at the age of 55, which occurred on 28 January 1547 in the Palace of Whitehall, on what would have been his father’s 90th birthday (King Henry VII). . ◼ He allegedly uttered his last words: “Monks! Monks! Monks!” perhaps in reference to the monks he caused to be evicted during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. . ◼ On 14 February 1547 Henry’s coffin lay overnight at Syon Monastery, en route for burial in St George’s Chapel, Windsor. . ◼ Twelve years before in 1535 a Franciscan friar named William Peyto (or Peto, Petow), (d.1558 or 1559), had preached before the King at Greenwich Palace “that God’s judgements were ready to fall upon his head & that dogs would lick his blood, as they had done to Ahab”, whose infamy rests upon 1 Kings 16:33: “And Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him”. . ◼ The prophecy was said to have been fulfilled during this night at Syon, when some “corrupted matter of a bloody colour” fell from the coffin to the floor. Henry VIII was interred in St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, next to Jane Seymour. Over a hundred years later, King Charles I (1625–1649) was buried in the same vault. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayinHistory #TheYear1547 #HenryVIII #HenryVIIIofEngland #KingHenryVIII #HouseofTudor #TudorDynasty #TheTudors #Monarchy #KingofEngland  #EnglishMonarchy #History #Heritage #England #D28Jan #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #OnThisDay #TudorHistory #Tudors #Tudor #royalfamily Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020 . Visit @royalcollectiontrust #otd (at Whitehall) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKmyRU1jXUw/?igshid=1f5qypiuhguvc

On This Day In Royal History . 28 November 1489 . Margaret Tudor was born . . About Margaret; . 👑 Margaret Tudor also known as Margaret, Queen of Scots, was born at Westminster Palace on 28 November 1489. She was the elder of the two surviving daughters of Henry VII of England & Elizabeth of York, & the elder sister of Henry VIII. . ◼ In 1503, she married James IV, King of Scots. James died in 1513, and their son became King James V. She married secondly Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. Through her first & second marriages, respectively, Margaret was the grandmother of both Mary, Queen of Scots, & Mary’s second husband, Lord Darnley. . ◼ Margaret’s marriage to James IV foreshadowed the Union of the Crowns their great-grandson, King James VI of Scotland, the child of Mary & Darnley, also became the king of England & Ireland on the death of Margaret’s fraternal niece, Elizabeth I of England in 1603. . Portrait - Margaret Tudor, dated c. 1520-1538, by Daniel Mytens. . . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1541 #MargaretTudor #QueenofScots #HouseofTudor #Tudor #History #Tudors #TudorHistory #westminster #palace #London #HouseofStewart #Royalty #EnglishMonarchy #Monarchy #historyfacts #medievalhistory #medievalqueen #medievalart #ScottishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #d28nov #otd #RoyalHistory #britishhistory #britishmonarchy (at Westminster) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJqCv-DMtc/?igshid=fsy0pabbaz4i

On This Day In History . 18th January 1486 . King Henry VII married Elizabeth of York . . ◼ As the eldest daughter of Edward IV with no surviving brothers, Elizabeth of York actually had a strong claim to the throne in her own right, but she did not take the throne as queen regnant. Such a convention would not truly come to England for another 67 years with the accession of Elizabeth of York’s granddaughter, Mary I. . ◼ After procuring papal dispensation, Cardinal Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated at the wedding of Henry VII & Elizabeth of York on 18 January 1486, in Westminster Abbey. . ◼ The marriage unified the warring houses & gave his children a strong claim to the throne. . ◼ The unification of the houses of York & Lancaster by this marriage is symbolised by the heraldic emblem of the Tudor rose, a combination of the white rose of York & the red rose of Lancaster. . , , #OnThisDayinHistory #thisdayinhistory #TheYear1486 #HenryVIIofEngland #HenryVII #KingHenryVII #ElizabethOfYork #HouseofYork #HouseofTudor #TheTudors #History #WhiteRose #TudorRose #RedRoseofLancaster #HouseofLancaster #EnglishHistory #D18Jan #BritishMonarchy #Medieval #Medievalhistory #otd #Royalhistory #kingandqueen #KingofEngland #QueenofEngland #royalwedding #onthisday #WestminsterAbbey (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKLicieDzw0/?igshid=1klk36mdn4krk

On This Day In Royal History . 30 May 1536 . King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour . . ◼ King Henry VIII was betrothed to Jane on 20 May 1536, just one day after Anne Boleyn’s execution. . ◼ The couple married at the Palace of Whitehall, Whitehall, London, in the Queen’s closet by Bishop Gardiner on 30 May 1536. . ◼ As a wedding gift the King made her a grant of 104 manors in four counties as well as a number of forests & hunting chases for her jointure, the income to support her during their marriage. . ◼ She was publicly proclaimed as queen consort on 4 June. Jane’s well-publicized sympathy for the late Queen Katharine & the Lady Mary showed her to be compassionate & made her a popular figure with the common people & most of the courtiers. . ◼ She was never crowned because of plague in London, where the coronation was to take place. Henry may have been reluctant to crown Jane before she had fulfilled her duty as a queen consort by bearing him a son & a male heir. . 👑 As queen, Jane Seymour was said to be strict & formal. Jane would form a very close relationship with Mary Tudor (Henry’s sister). The lavish entertainments, gaiety, & extravagance of the Queen’s household, which had reached its peak during the time of Anne Boleyn, was replaced by a strict enforcement of decorum. . ◼ For example, she banned the French fashions that Anne Boleyn had introduced. Politically, Seymour appears to have been conservative. Her only reported involvement in national affairs, in 1536, was when she asked for pardons for participants in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Henry is said to have rejected this, reminding her of the fate her predecessor met with when she “meddled in his affairs”. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1536 #RoyalWedding #d30may #HenryVIII #HenryVIIIofEngland #KingHenryVIII #KingofEngland #QueenJaneSeymour #JaneSeymour #HouseofTudor #TheTudors #TudorDynasty #Tudor #History #RoyaltyinArt #EnglishMonarchy #Otd #OnThisDay #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #kingandqueen #kingsandqueens #tudors #theking #thequeen #royalfamily #Weddingday #Royalweddings (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA0vfzQjJeS/?igshid=bkpzl5qrpu74