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2 unusual facts about Frances Grey


Frances Grey

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (1517–1559), granddaughter of Henry VII of England and mother of Queen Jane Grey

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk

The scene in Trevor Nunn's 1985 film, Lady Jane, in which Frances kills a deer in white snow, establishes early on in the film that she is the evil character, a wicked Queen to Jane's Snow White.


Thomas Keyes

in his chamber by the Watergate at Westminster Keyes secretly married the Queen's kinswoman, Lady Mary Grey, the daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Frances Brandon.


see also

Anthony Cooke

William Cooke (d. 14 May 1589), who married Frances Grey, daughter of Lord John Grey of Pirgo, by whom he had four sons, including William Cooke of Highnam, Gloucestershire, who married Joyce Lucy, grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, and three daughters.