![]() ![]() Jane Seymour was the daughter of a powerful and conniving Court family, and she caught Henry's wandering eye while she was a lady-in-waiting to his wife and queen, Catherine of Aragon, and she died while giving him the legitimate male heir, and yet despite the rather self-evident inferences to be drawn from all three of these facts, biographers and especially novelists have persistently portrayed Jane Seymour as a sweet, apolitical innocent, a maiden of almost otherworldly grace and delicacy, someone as far from the shrill conniving of, say, an Anne Boleyn or the wanton idiocy of a, say, Kathryn Howard as it was possible to be. ![]() Historian Alison Weir continues her series of mammoth Tudor historical novels “Six Tudor Queens” with her 500-page latest, Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen, which tells the brief life story of King Henry VIII's third wife (the series title is a bit misleading the point here isn't that these six women were Tudor queens, it's that they were all wives of one Tudor king). ![]()
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