Just when we thought we were finished with Jane Seymour… one. final. asterisk.

In the middle of this series, historian Elizabeth Norton published Jane Seymour: Patronage, Material Culture and Image Crafting, the newest academic study of Jane’s life and queenship. And how could I call this a proper Jane Seymour series DEEP DIVE if we ignored the newest research?? Not here. No way.

I promised I’d come back once the series was finished and tell you what I found. So here I am, and I am so excited to share it with you.

So here it is: 43 minutes of new details, original sources, a few hot little facts, and the things that really complete my entire view of Jane Seymour. A woman who I feel like I've come to know.

So here it is. Just one final note.

The Asterisk, if you will.

And THAT, my friends, is a wrap on Jane Seymour.

Until next time...

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On October 12, 1537, at around 2am. Jane Seymour gave birth to the son England had waited decades for.

In the final chapter of our Jane Seymour series, we step inside the celebrations surrounding Edward’s birth and christening before everything begins to change. We explore Jane’s prolonged labor, childbed fever, and what she may have experienced in her final days.

Because saying “Jane died in childbirth” does not begin to capture what she endured... she deserves more. And we will try our best to understand her story fully, even when it gets hard.

We then follow Jane beyond death, through the long road to her final resting place, what she left behind, and one last look back at the incredible journey we’ve taken with her.

This is The Phoenix.

Thank you for listening to our Jane Seymour Deep Dive Series.

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In this record-breaking episode, we begin with a deep dive into Tudor medicine, conception, pregnancy, and the complicated ways sixteenth-century people understood the female body. Then we return to Jane herself following the timeline of her life during her last days outside the chamber walls.

We reconstruct the world of Tudor confinement: its protocols, preparations, rituals, rooms, rules, and the women who inhabited them. We meet the midwives and examine the knowledge and experience they brought into a space from which men were largely excluded... until now.

And finally, after months of waiting, Jane Seymour crosses the threshold, and enters the chamber, and we are going with her.

And now we wait.

Welcome to The Chamber.

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