![]() ![]() ![]() And my discovery of lost manuscripts has helped me lay to rest a Tudor mystery that may interest the next prime minister, whoever that is, as he gazes at Mary’s portrait later this year. But Mary was a more significant figure than her stature in the literature suggests. She was the dwarf who married a giant, the curious youngest sister of the famous Lady Jane Grey. If Lady Mary Grey is recalled today, it is as a historical footnote. An heir to the throne, a potential English queen, now buried in obscurity. Now Leanda de Lisle tells allĪt the Prime Minister’s country residence at Chequers, scribbles on the walls of the 12-foot prison room bear testimony to the dreary misery of the woman Elizabeth I had kept there. The fate of Lady Mary Grey, Queen Elizabeth’s prisoner and a potential heir to the throne, has never been resolved. ![]()
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