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40 Facts About the Tudor Era’s Awful Courtier, Thomas Seymour

Khalid Elhassan March 22, 2019 24 min

38. Baiting Henry VIII With Jane Seymour

Henry VIII, by Hans Holbein the Younger. Google Art Project

The Seymour family staked their fortunes upon introducing Jane Seymour to the notoriously randy king Henry VIII. She was the opposite of Anne Boleyn – the kind of female praised by contemporaries for correct conduct, while Boleyn had been spirited and wild. After his tumultuous years with Anne, Henry was ready for a change of pace, and he took the bait, hook, line, and sinker. In the spring of 1536, Thomas and Jane Seymour’s elder brother, Edward, was made a gentlemen of the privy chamber. Soon thereafter, Edward, his wife, and his sister Jane, moved into Greenwich Palace, in an apartment that the king could access via a private passage.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.