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Jane Seymour was the third Queen of England under the monarchy of King Henry Tudor VIII and the third wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of Prince Edward Tudor (later King Edward VI) she was Henry's favorite wife, as she gave the king the son that he had wanted for a long time.
Seymour is the title character in Alison Weir's book Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen, the third in the Six Tudor Queens series. In music. As Giovanna Seymour, she appears in Gaetano Donizetti's opera Anna Bolena. Rick Wakeman recorded the piece "Jane Seymour" for his 1973 album The Six Wives of Henry VIII.
Sep 19, 2016 · Jane Seymour may have first come to court in the service of Queen Catherine, but then was moved to wait on Anne Boleyn as Anne rose in the King's favor and eventually became his second wife. In September 1535, the King stayed at the Seymour family home in Wiltshire, England.
"How a woman like Jane Seymour became Queen of England is a mystery. In Tudor terms she came from nowhere and was nothing.....the woman whose mousy, peaked features and mean, pointed chin are rendered by Holbein with his characteristic, unsparing honesty....But maybe Jane's very ordinariness was the point. Anne had been exciting as a mistress.
Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII of England and mother of King Edward VI. She succeeded—where Henry’s previous wives had failed—in providing a legitimate male heir to the throne. The future Edward VI was born on October 12, 1537, but Jane died 12 days later.
Jun 3, 2021 · Jane Seymour was the third of Henry VIII's six wives, and the only one to bear him a son, the future Edward VI. She is the queen who 'died', passing away shortly after giving birth. Explore the story of how Jane Seymour came to Henry's attention, whether she really was meek and demure, and whether Henry really did love her most of all
Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, didn't last long, but she delivered. She married Henry 11 days after Anne Boleyn’s execution, and died giving him a longed-for son. But was Jane a helpless victim or secret schemer?
