Nor did she make Jane into an unrealistically strong, influential crusader.

I liked that Weir focused a lot on Jane's pre-Henry days and that she didn't make her the passive, saintly, mealy-mouthed woman I've encountered in other novels about her. It's a door stopper but still managed to hold my attention, and I even learned a few new things about Jane. This is the third installment of Weir's 'Six Tudor Queen' series of novels based on the wives of Henry VIII I need to backtrack and read the one on Anne Boleyn before Anne of Cleves is published). She knows she must produce a male heir without fail. Unwilling to marry but terrified to resist Henry's advances for fear she might share Anne's fate, and propelled by her family, Jane becomes queen of England a mere 10 days after Anne's execution. So Jane is appalled when King Henry shunts Katherine aside in his lustful pursuit of Anne Boleyn, but even more so when he takes Anne's life in his rush to wed-Jane herself! But her ambitious father has forced her to live at court as lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine of Aragon, a fellow Catholic whom she soon comes to love and admire.

Twenty-five-year-old Jane Seymour wants nothing more than to become a nun. In this third book in the epic Six Tudor Queens series, the acclaimed historian and bestselling author brings new insight to this dramatic story, showing how pure fear for her life determined Jane Seymour's actions. A novel of the devout young woman who became the unwilling object of King Henry VIII's ardor-and the mother of his only son.

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