Jane — Lost Her Head
THE Seymours were a funny lot —including the unfortunate Jane, who lost her head in more than one way to Henry VIII. It was excessive vanity, rather than undue ambition, which was to account for the unfavourable impression made by the later Seymours on their contemporaries. Mr. Bernard Falk points out in hie new book, "The Naughty Seymours" (Hutchinson). Charles Seymour, the sixth Duke of Somerset, for example, "was pompous to the point of ridicule." Once, when his second wife tapped him coquettishly with her fan, he chided her for familiarity: "Madam, my first duchess was a Percy and she never took such a liberty! • Matrimonially, they did well for themselves. "If they married for love," bays Mr. Falk sceptically, "they were careful to see that their partners ha-1 substantial rent rolls or dowries. . ." Some of them married late. There wa3 Henry Seymour, who was quite a "card." He married a 15-year-old girl when h-j was "7. c
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 94, 20 April 1940, Page 1 (Supplement)
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