Picture of the Week #58
Marker for Lady Jane Grey and others in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London. Photo May 1998.
I thought this would be an appropriate picture for this week since the anniversary of Jane’s (and Guildford’s for that matter) execution is Friday. I took this photo on my first visit to the Tower – May 19, 1998. There were roses on Anne Boleyn’s marker that day since it was the anniversary of her execution and I asked the Beefeater if I could take a photo of them. I don’t know if it was because I looked like a young and clueless American (which I was!) or what, but he said yes. After snapping that photo, I quickly shot this one as well.
ExecutedToday.com » 1554: Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days’ Queen said,
February 12, 2010 @ 8:22 am
[...] is a previously unchallenged tradition that Lady Jane Grey Dudley was buried in the Chapel of St Peter-ad-Vincula (St Peter-in-Chains) within the Tower, supposedly beneath the floor just in front of the left-hand [...]
Marty said,
February 12, 2010 @ 2:45 pm
It is such a shame that these graves weren’t properly marked at the time of burial. Alison Weir talks about how the bodies were exhumed during Queen Victoria’s reign and there was sadly a lot of confusion and also missing bodies.