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Join National Gallery curator Chris Riopelle on his visit to a very chilly Tower Green, the site of Lady Jane Grey's execution and burial. With Historic Royal Palaces curator, Jane Spooner, and the National Gallery's Leah Kharibian.

 

From the National Gallery Podcast: Episode Forty One (March 2010)

 

Find out more about Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833

 

More about the 2010 exhibition Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey

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