Jane Seymour comes to court

Clips from the series 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII' starring Keith Michell as Henry and Anne Stallybrass as Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife.

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[stokrotka1011]

I think that Annabelle Wallis is much better than this Jane. Annabelle's Jane is beautiful and kind.

Oh God why Henry is such asshole?

Why he treated all wives like crap?

He killed poor Anne Boleyn, he ruined Katherine's life and killed Kitty Howard.

Dammit Henry!

[stokrotka1011]

And why all this comments are spam? It is really strange

[spartacus3ful]

Anne Seymour, shown in this clip, was the sister of Jane. This is the same Anne Seymour whose portrait is often confused as being that of Catherine Howard (of whom no firmly authenticated portrait exists, though there is a miniature that is more than probably her). The confused portrait shows Anne Seymour wearing "widow's leaves" sewn into her gown, as her husband had died when that portrait was painted. This is how experts determined that the portrait was not of Catherine Howard.

[1993frozenkiwi]

@stokrotka1011

Jane was never really that beautiful though, she was supposed to be very plain. I think that this actress probably looks most like the pictures we have of Jane Seymour than out of all those whom have played her before. However I do not think she was always as mild as this video portrays her. I think she had an air of politics in her too although she was better at hiding it than some of his other wives.

But that is just my opinion.

[WINDYCLAIR]

Henry was one of the biggest two faced hypocrites in history. He loved no one but himself, with the small exception of Jane Seymour. Life punished him by taking her away too soon.

[ofcelticblood]

@stokrotka1011 ~ Under Henry VIII over 70,000 executions were legally performed. He was a real asshole, arrogant, self-centred, greedy and piggish. He looked upon women like one would a brooding mare.

“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest” Denis Diderot quotes (French man of letters and philosopher, 1713-1784)

[NicolaWriter]

I imagine that Jane Seymour was quite terrified when King Henry settled on her. Being married to a man who humiliated one wife and murdered another would make any woman nervous as hell and inclined to kiss his crazy ass. Especially when he had absolute power like KH8 did. We are looking at Jane's obedience from a 21st century view. IF we could go back in time,I'll keep it real. I'd have kissed his arse every day.

[ligreekguy]

@tigranvartanovitch

Yes, I believe it was none other than Leicester, but of course, the Scots knew better than to marry Mary to an Englishman. Talk about being nothing more than a puppet state. What is interesting is that Scotland was by that time a Protestant state (at least among the leadership, with the exception of Mary, of course), yet it maintained very close ties to Catholic France, primarily to offset England.

[ligreekguy]

@tigranvartanovitch

What about allegations that Elizabeth was a lesbian? A number of allegorical paintings during her reign depict her holding hands with or caressing female deity figures, and of course, the artists who issued these did so under the patronage and approval of the Queen.

[tigranvartanovitch]

@ligreekguy Yes, a male heir was a raw nerve. As well as Matilda, the Wars of the Roses were in living memory. Don't know about the Bullens being Irish. Lots of English lords had lands in Ireland. Certainly Walter Raleigh did, because it was on his Irish lands that the potatoes were first grown, which is why he is associated with the potato, and the resultant varieties are known as the Irish Potato. But the Raleighs, so far as I am aware, were as Devonshire as they come.

[tigranvartanovitch]

@ligreekguy I have heard a few stories, like the one that Elizabeth was actually a man, which is why she never got married. But I have not heard that Mary Tudor had accused her of being Smeaton's child. As you say, all indications are that she was Henry VIII's daughter. She lived in different times, so she did not have all these notions about knights in armour, and invasions of France. She also had some pretty effective advisers and administrators. Lord Burleigh, in particular.