![]() ![]() ![]() The result – Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen – is a bit heavy on history, a bit light on the juicy melodrama, with some very old-fashioned storytelling tropes – in short, a solid novel although not a perfect one. Was she pushed by her ambitious family? Was she truly the docile angel she was later enshrined as? Alison Weir – well known writer of biographical fiction and straight historical biography, and who in fact has written multiple historical biographies about Jane – tries to answer these questions through the medium of fiction, writing about the young queen’s life from the day she leaves an attempt at an ecclesiastical life to the day she dies in her royal bed. The story of Jane Seymour’s rise to the throne (and her subsequent death after bringing forth Henry VIII’s only male heir) has been well chronicled by many. ![]()
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