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Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (née Lady Frances Brandon; 16 July 1517 – 20 November 1559), was an English noblewoman. She was the second child and eldest daughter of King Henry VIII 's younger sister, Princess Mary , and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk .
Frances Grey (born 1970 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish actress, perhaps most well known for her portrayal of D.S. Kate Beauchamp in the BBC television series Messiah (2001). [1] The original production was based on a novel by Boris Starling .
Frances M. Gray (1910–2001), first president of Damavand College (1968-1975) Frances Gray Patton (1906–2000), writer; Francis Gray (disambiguation)
On July 19, the Privy Council deposed Jane Grey, proclaimed Mary Queen, and ordered Dudley to cease his resistance. The circumstances and motives of this decision are not known (all witnesses distorted the facts to some extent to save their own lives from Mary's wrath), [121] but its timing is known. [122]
The glaistig / ˈ ɡ l æ ʃ t ɪ ɡ / is a ghost from Scottish mythology, a type of fuath.It is also known as maighdean uaine (Green Maiden), and may appear as a woman of beauty or monstrous mien, as a half-woman and half-goat similar to a faun or satyr, or in the shape of a goat. [1]
Perseus and the Graeae by Edward Burne-Jones (1892). In Greek mythology, the Graeae (/ ˈ ɡ r iː iː /; Ancient Greek: Γραῖαι Graiai, lit. ' old women ', alternatively spelled Graiai), also called the Grey Sisters and the Phorcides (' daughters of Phorcys '), [1] were three sisters who had gray hair from their birth and shared one eye and one tooth among them.
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A famous portrait, purportedly of Frances Grey and Adrian Stokes, made by George Vertue in 1748. The likenesses in the portrait have since been identified as actually being those of Mary Fiennes, Baroness Dacre and her son Gregory. [1] Adrian Stokes (4 March 1519 [2] – 3 November 1585) was an English courtier and politician.