Tower Green is a space within the Tower of London, a royal castle in London, where three English queens and several other British nobles were executed by beheading. It was considered more dignified fo
The commemorated spot on Tower Green where the execution scaffolds were erected
Side of the Church of St Peter ad Vincula viewed across Tower Green
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (le Supplice de Jeanne Grey) by the French Romantic painter, Paul Delaroche, 1833.
Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford was an English noblewoman. Her husband, George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, was the brother of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, and a cousin to King Hen
Tower Green
…Queen Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, by a bill of attainder on 13 February 1542. Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, by order of Henry VIII on 13 February 1542. Lady Jane Grey, the "Nine Days Queen", wife of Lord Guildford Dudley, by order of a special commission for…
Unknown woman in Tudor dress
Anne Boleyn, Jane Boleyn's sister-in-law and queen of England, Henry VIII's second wife
Katherine Howard, Jane Boleyn's cousin-in-law and queen of England, Henry VIII's fifth wife
Sign at the scaffold of the Tower of London marking Lady Rochford's place of execution.