TudorHistory.org Blog » Picture of the Week http://tudorhistory.org/blog Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:04:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Picture of the Week #163 http://tudorhistory.org/blog/2012/02/15/picture-of-the-week-163/ http://tudorhistory.org/blog/2012/02/15/picture-of-the-week-163/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:04:28 +0000 Lara http://tudorhistory.org/blog/?p=6170 Continue reading →]]>

IANE carved into a wall in the Beauchamp Tower of the Tower of London. Photo May 2003.

This carving has been associated with Jane Grey, who, along with her husband Guildford, was executed this week in 1554. Guildford Dudley and the members of his family who were arrested in the plot to put Jane on the throne were kept in this room and left many carvings, so it isn’t outside the realm of possibility that this is a reference to his wife. It is also a possible reference to Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland (mother of Guildford, etc.). Or it’s possible that it isn’t a reference to either!

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The view from atop Harlech Castle in Wales. Photo May 2000.

As I’ve mentioned previously, Harlech Castle was a Lancastrian stronghold during the Wars of the Roses.

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Another section of the Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick. Photo May 1998

As I mentioned when I first posted about this place in Picture of the Week #86, it is on my “to visit again” list since I didn’t go inside when I was there 14 (!!) years ago. Well, it looks like that will probably happen next year since I’ve begun to seriously start researching and planning a trip for 2013. I won’t have any specific info until next year but getting back to Stratford, Warwick and Kenilworth is a definite part of the plans. Most of the rest of the trip, at this early planning stage, will concentrate on East Anglia, an area I haven’t visited at all on my previous three trips.

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The arms of Prince Arthur at Carew Castle, Wales. Photo May 2003.

This is a close-up of Prince Arthur’s arms – the wider shot was Picture of the Week #8 and Catherine of Aragon’s were Picture of the Week #102. Arthur’s are the royal arms of the time (three fleurs-de-lis and three lions passant) with a three point label across the top, denoting him as the eldest son.

Here’s a full color version that makes it a little easier to pick out the details from the photo (image adapted from a file at Wikimedia Commons):

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Looking over the old Elizabethan gardens at Kenilworth Castle. Photo May 1998.

This is how the gardens looked before the re-design that opened in 2009.

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The Tower of London viewed from across the Thames. Photo June 2000.

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Great Tower of Pembroke Castle and other buildings of the Inner Ward. Photo May 2003.

I realized as I was looking through my pictures for one to use today, that this marks the first post of year 4 of “Picture of the Week”! So that’s why it’s another Pembroke Castle photo, in honor of the first one I posted back in January 2009.

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Front of St. Mary’s Church at Sudeley Castle. Photo May 1998.

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Barbican of Leeds Castle. Photo May 2003.

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Shakespeare’s Globe. Photo May 1998.

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