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Apparently replaced in The Tudors.


There are new photos out from Season 3 showing a new actress playing the part of Jane Seymour: http://www.elegantceleb.com/2008/07/the-tudors-filming-in-ireland/

Good riddance, I say. Anita's ridiculously gorgeous but her acting left so much to be desired last season.

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does anybody know why she was replaced?

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She refused to do nudity

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I don't think she was replaced. I read somewhere that she quit. But I find this news quite disappointing because I really liked her as Jane Seymour and was looking forward to seeing her in Season 3.

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I don't think it was her fault that Jane Seymour was portrayed as a simpering idiot. I'm going to miss her!

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That's because Jane Seymour WAS a simpering idiot. Read "The Six Wives of Henry VIII".

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No, she was a smart blonde.


Books solely on Jane Seymour are scarce, but two biographies of the queen have recently been published. The first, a scholarly biography, is by Pamela Gross, while the second by Elizabeth Norton is more accessible to the average reader. . A third book, William Seymour's Ordeal by Ambition, is in part a biography of Jane.

Jane was widely praised as "the fairest, the most discreet, and the most meritous of all Henry VIII's wives" in the centuries after her passing away. One historian, however, took serious umbrage to this view in the 19th century. Victorian author Agnes Strickland, who wrote multi-volume anthologies of French, Scottish, and English royal women, said that the story of Anne Boleyn's last agonised hours and Henry VIII's swift remarriage to Jane Seymour "is repulsive enough, but it becomes tenfold more abhorrent when the woman who caused the whole tragedy is loaded with panegyric." Hester W. Chapman and Eric Ives resurrected Strickland's view of Jane Seymour, and believe she played a crucial and conscious role in the cold-blooded plot to bring Anne Boleyn to the executioner's block. Joanna Denny, Marie Louise Bruce and Carolly Erickson have also refrained from giving overly sympathetic accounts of Jane's life and career. It should be noted that Ives, Bruce, and Denny are biographers of Anne Boleyn.

On the other hand, historical writers like Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser paint a favourable portrait of a woman of discretion and good sense - "a strong-minded matriarch in the making," says Weir. David Starkey and Karen Lindsey are relatively dismissive of Jane's importance in comparison to that of Henry's other major queens (Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Parr), though they refrain from claiming that she was the cause of the unfair trial. They further state that it was unlikely Jane could accomplish as much as her predecessors or her successors because her reign had been relatively short and spent mainly pregnant or unwell. Another consideration is that in this period of history, most queen consorts had little say in decision making and as such Henry may logically be seen as the decision maker in Anne Boleyn's downfall. While it is believed that the Seymour brothers, Edward and Thomas, had coached Jane on how to gain the king's favor, historians consider it unlikely that Henry allowed himself to be led.

And, on "Icons of Power", "Henry VIII", it is said that she was not very attractive but she appealed to the King because she was a witting and intelligent women, although submiss as he wanted.


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What was the need of nudity after the moment Jane is married and pregnant, four episodes only? They could go along without it. Either way, I've never seen a blonde woman refusing to do nudity. Good for her! It's as Henry said about Jane: "In this slippery world, you represent to me all that is innocent, all that is good."


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