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Henry the Eighth and His Family (1545) – the man at the far right is the jester Will Somers, and it has been suggested that the woman at the far left is the jester Jane Foole Sommers is believed to be portrayed in a painting of Henry VIII and family at the Palace of Whitehall .
Henry the Eighth and His Family (1545); the man at the far-right background is jester Will Somers, and it has been suggested that the woman at the far left is Jane Foole. Jane Foole, also known as Jane The Foole, Jane, The Queen's Fool, "Jeanne le Fol" or "Jane Hir Fole" (fl. 1543–1558), was an English court fool (distinct from a jester).
Henry VIII, king of England is there with his wife, Catherine of Aragon, daughter Mary and a large part of his court, including his fool, Will Somers, and the court musician Mark Smeaton with whom he shares his latest song composition, “No Song More Pleasing” which charms and delights everyone present.
Somers runs the troupe and produces acts for the Queen and her Court, especially at large feasts. He and his troupe entertain the Queen in her Presence Chamber. Will Somers was actually a real person and he was Henry VIII's personal 'fool' as well as Elizabeth 1st. He is not mentioned too much in the books.
Henry shown reading Henry and his jester Will Somers. The Psalter of Henry VIII is a 16th-century illuminated psalter that belonged to Henry VIII of England. It is now in the British Library as MS Royal 2 A xvi. The king commissioned the book in the early 1540s from the French illuminator Jean Mallard, who had at one time worked for Francis I.
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers (1986) Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles (1992) The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997) Mary, Called Magdalene (2002) Helen of Troy (2006) Lucille Lost (2006) Elizabeth I (2011) The Confessions of Young Nero (2017) The Splendor Before the Dark (2018)
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Notes by John Gough Nichols, showing the effect of the will of Henry VIII on the succession to the throne of England. The constitutional standing of Henry VIII's last will depended on the Third Succession Act that received royal assent in 1544. Section VI of the act provides that the line of succession, if not continued by the king's children ...