Lady Jane Or A Royal Imposter?: Some Think Miniature Portrait At Yale May Be One Of A Kind.

From: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) | Date: May 15, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Kim Martineau

May 15--NEW HAVEN -- Lady Jane Grey did not live long enough to sit for many portraits. She was Queen of England for just nine days before her cousin, the rightful heir to the throne, banished her to the Tower of London and eventually had her beheaded.

England's shortest reigning monarch has lived in the popular imagination since, the darling of poets, painters and even Hollywood directors. For all her notoriety, though, still no one knows what she really looked like. Most pictures believed to to be of Lady Jane were done after her death, probably ...

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