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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

Sole portrait of England’s ‘nine-day queen’ thought to have been identified by researchers

Detail painting showing woman's face.
The portrait will go on display from Friday at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire. Photograph: Christopher Ison/English Heritage

She was known as the “nine-day queen” and was used as a pawn in the ruthless ambition that defined the Tudor court. But for centuries, historians have struggled to find a single portrait of Lady Jane Grey that was painted during her lifetime.

Now, research by English Heritage suggests a mysterious portrait depicts the royal who reigned over England for just over a week in the summer of 1553, and who was executed less than a year later.

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