5/20/2023 0 Comments Jane seymour alison weir![]() Who was the real Jane? It is impossible to know, but Weir provides a compelling portrait of who she might have been, addressing head on, as she does, one of the most puzzling and difficult aspects of Jane’s story - her rapid replacement of Anne Boleyn. Her short marriage and early death provide a relatively blank canvas for the novelist to draw on – which Alison Weir does with relish! Little is known about this daughter of a Wiltshire gentry family who served as a maid of honour to Katharine of Aragon in the final years of her marriage to Henry VIII, when Anne Boleyn’s star was on the rise. She was supported, or thrust forward, depending on the view, by the machinations of her power-hungry family, dutifully providing the longed-for son, and dying young, before she could make her mark on history, or indeed, fall foul of Henry. ![]() ![]() Jane Seymour is a pale and somewhat shadowy figure in the colourful collection of Henry VIII's wives - the pious and amenable one who captured Henry’s attention by being the antithesis of Anne Boleyn. ![]()
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