Was Jane Seymour that nice?

From what I have read about her..the answer is yes. She made sure Mary, the Kings daughter was welcome back to court(that was a long story which I won't go through on this thread) and they were best of friends until her death.

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Even though this is an old post, I'll answer.

I wouldn't be too hard on a girl for being the King's mistress. Back then, the King owned everything in the country. Even the people, in a way. If the King wanted to have sex with a girl, she and her family couldn't do much about it. But if the King wants you to be his mistress, things could be very bad for you or your family if you said no, but your family could get richer and have more status (and you could stay alive), if you said yes.

Seymour I'm sure did not want to be a mistress to the old, sickly, obese King. But she resigned herself to her fate. She had won the King's favor.

Now, she may have encouraged it, or was strictly out for gain. We have no way of knowing that. But to assume she wanted to be the mistress of the King, in his physical shape, for the lust of it, is not being fair.

Also, it wasn't considered immoral to be mistress to the King, apparently. No one looked down on the women who were his mistresses, or the women who became Queen that way.

jane was certainly very kind to Henry's daughter Mary, who had had a very hard time during the anne Boleyn years. And she did ask Henry for mercy for the monasteries, though he refused her that. i do not think she was Henry's mistress. she certainly seems to have been happy to be queen, but she was an admirer of Henry's first wife, katherine of aragon, and probably regarded his marriage to Anne Boleyn as invalid.

Probably not. She wasn't Henry's mistress, though, Henry had far too much respect for her honor. It's one of the things he liked best about Jane, I've read. But yeah, Jane was a little saintly in this play - I doubt she felt so much guilt replacing Anne Boleyn, or believed in Anne's innocence so strongly. Didn't most people at the time accept and agree that Anne was guilty of all she was accused? Anyway, Jane probably wasn't too bad, but no way she didn't enjoy her elevated position and benefits. I do think she was likely terrified of her husband, though...that comment he made to her about her predecessor meddling in his affairs, yikes.