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She was portrayed by [[Jane Asher]] in the film ''Henry VIII and His Six Wives'', [[ | She was portrayed by [[Jane Asher]] in the film ''Henry VIII and His Six Wives'', [[Emilia Fox]] in the two-part ITV drama ''Henry VIII'' and [[Anita Briem]] in season two of ''The Tudors''. | ||
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Jane Seymour was the third wife of Henry VIII.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Jane married Henry VIII in 1536, their engagement having been announced the day after the execution of Henry's previous wife, Anne Boleyn. (AUDIO: Recorded Time [+]Loading...["Recorded Time (audio story)"]) Jane was originally Anne's lady-in-waiting. (PROSE: God Send Me Well to Keep [+]Loading...["God Send Me Well to Keep (short story)"])
She was involved in Missy's plan to befriend several Tudor women in an effort to prevent the reign of James I, who created the charter for St Luke's University, thereby preventing her imprisonment in the Vault. (PROSE: Girl Power! [+]Loading...["Girl Power! (short story)"])
She was the mother of Edward VI. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo [+]Loading...["The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)"]) However, she would die in childbirth (PROSE: God Send Me Well to Keep [+]Loading...["God Send Me Well to Keep (short story)"]) sometime before 1538. (AUDIO: The Doomsday Chronometer [+]Loading...["The Doomsday Chronometer (audio story)"]) Henry did not remarry until her death. (PROSE: The Roundheads [+]Loading...["The Roundheads (novel)"])
The Sixth Doctor was in possession of six wedding invitations from Henry VIII. (COMIC: The Gift [+]Loading...["The Gift (comic story)"]) The Second Doctor and Polly counted the wives of Henry VIII using the rhyme "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived". (PROSE: The Roundheads [+]Loading...["The Roundheads (novel)"])
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
Jane Seymour remained the only wife of Henry VIII to give birth to a son. When Thomas Cromwell attempted to advise Henry against marrying Nyssa instead of Anne of Cleves, Henry remarked that Cromwell had dismissed Queen Jane "as a nobody" too. (PROSE: God Send Me Well to Keep [+]Loading...["God Send Me Well to Keep (short story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
She was portrayed by Jane Asher in the film Henry VIII and His Six Wives, Emilia Fox in the two-part ITV drama Henry VIII and Anita Briem in season two of The Tudors.
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