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Experts believe they have uncovered enough evidence to suggest a Tudor-era portrait could be the only known image of Lady Jane Grey painted in her lifetime. Born at Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, in about 1537, Grey was Henry VIII's great-niece. She was "the nine days queen", whose brief reign was an unsuccessful bid by Protestants to prevent the accession of her Catholic cousin Mary I. Executed aged just 17, if the image is of her, it was changed over the centuries to depict her as a "subdued, Protestant" martyr. The painting is on loan to Wrest Park, its previous home. Rachel Turnbull, senior collections conservator at English Heritage, spoke to Â鶹Éç Leicester's Ben Jackson.