I was surprised, therefore, when I picked this book up from the library to find out that it was nearly six hundred pages long. Not nearly as much is known about the life of Jane Seymour, given that she was married to King Henry for a mere eighteen months. I’ve read and enjoyed the previous novels, and was interested to see how Weir proceeded after the tumultuous and widely documented reigns of Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. This is the third installment in Weir’s Six Tudor Queens series. Renowned historical biographer Alison Weir writes a fictionalized account of Jane Seymour’s life as seen through her eyes. She died of complications following childbirth at only twenty-eight years old. She was widely praised for her virtue and devout Catholic faith, and clung to her religion even as Henry broke with the Roman Catholic Church. Having served in the court of both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, Jane saw the fall of both women when they failed to deliver an heir for their King. The third wife of King Henry VIII, Jane Seymour was the Queen of England for barely more than a year.
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