![]() ![]() He eventually breaks with the Catholic Church in order to marry Anne and puts aside Katherine and his daughter Mary. Katherine is putting on a brave front, but Henry VIII is in love with Anne Boleyn. When Jane goes to court to serve Queen Katherine of Aragon, she learns that even queens have little power in their marriages. Obviously, married women have few choices. ![]() Jane also sees how her mother suffers as she pretends that the affair never happened. ![]() Her father has an affair with his daughter-in-law, but the girl is the one who is sent away to a nunnery. From an early age, she learns that life for women in the sixteenth century is often unfair. We see Jane first at her beloved home, Wulfhall. In this novel, Weir makes a little-known and seemingly dull queen come to life. Jane is therefore the perfect subject for a historical novel like Weir’s Jane Seymour The Haunted Queen. In the case of England’s Queen Jane Seymour, there is little evidence for historians like Alison Weir to go on since Jane did not leave letters behind. ![]()
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