And to complete the catch-up on stuff, a Sunday short takes!
* BBC History Magazine offers a digital sample from their March 2010 issue (which has two Tudor history related articles)
* Spectator article about Mary Grey by Leanda de Lisle
* Little Miss Sunnydale’s Flickr set retracing Anne Boleyn’s coronation procession through modern London
* An article on the enduring popularity of the Tudors
My theory is that Holbein is responsible for the popularity of the Tudors. There are plenty of other interesting Medieval kings & queens of England, France and elsewhere but they don’t have the rich visual references.
That’s an interesting article about Mary Grey, but I think there is a mistake in it. At the end, de Lisle writes, “Mary Grey was buried in the tomb of her mother Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, at Chequers, without her own name inscribed on it. But there she lies still, surrounded by the kings from whom she was descended and the queens whose rivals the sisters once were.”
Frances Brandon Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, is not buried at Chequers, but at Westminster Abbey. If Mary is buried with her mother, I don’t think they know about it there.
You are correct Kathy! So annoying that got slipped in at editorial. I posted a comment on their website and wrote a letter. Two paragraphs up I say her body was processed to Westminster Abbey aaargh!