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Jane Seymour (/ ˈ s iː m ɔːr /; c. 1508 – 24 October 1537) was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen following the execution of Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn , who was accused by Henry of adultery after failing to produce a male heir.
Seymour is a celebrity ambassador for Childhelp, a national nonprofit organisation dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect. [35] In 2007, she sponsored a children's Art Pillow contest as part of the Jane Seymour Collection, with the proceeds going to Childhelp. [36] On 12 April 2013, it was announced that Seymour was divorcing ...
Lady Jane Seymour (c.1541 – 19 March 1561) [1] was a writer during the sixteenth century in England, along with her sisters, Lady Margaret Seymour and Anne Seymour, Countess of Warwick. [2] They were the children of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset , who from 1547 was the Lord Protector of England after the death of King Henry VIII and ...
In the historical drama, based on Hilary Mantel’s novel of the same name, King Henry VIII will marry Jane Seymour following the beheading of his second wife Anne Boleyn, while Cromwell continues ...
Jane Popincourt, a Frenchwoman, who was a tutor to his sisters. [8] Anne Bassett, stepdaughter of the King's uncle, Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, lady-in-waiting to Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Queen Mary I. [8] Elizabeth Carew, wife of his close friend, Nicholas Carew, and half-first cousin of Anne Boleyn. [8]
It is likely that she became Anne Boleyn's lady-in-waiting after she married Henry, a position she held under the next three queens - Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard. [ 2 ] She was a senior lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves, the King's fourth wife, and knew that the marriage was unconsummated.
In the first images from the production, released by the BBC and Masterpiece PBS, Kate Phillips can be seen reprising her role as King Henry VIII’s third wife Jane Seymour, while Mark Rylance ...
He was the son of King Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, and was the only son of Henry VIII to outlive him. Throughout the realm, the people greeted the birth of a male heir, "whom we hungered for so long", [ 5 ] with joy and relief.