Jane refuses the gifts with great aplomb. There’s the day Anne Boleyn caught Henry with Jane in his lap and the famous scene where Henry tries to give Jane a bag of coins and a letter. Wertman includes all the iconic moments in Jane’s life. Jane’s prospects improve from that moment on.
While Henry VIII is there, he and Jane have a moment in the garden and that’s where Jane’s romance begins. Jane is sent to the family home of Wulfhall to oversee the preparations for the King’s visit. The story opens with Jane working as a lady-in-waiting for Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII and the Queen are about to go on summer progress. What a delight this book is! Wertman’s premise is that Jane Seymour was the plain sister in the family and all she really wanted was to get married.
But I thought I would make an exception for my friend Janet Wertman and read the first book of her Seymour Saga. Due to the constraints of historical research, I haven’t read any fiction for years. I used to be one of them and have many fond memories of reading the delightful books of Jean Plaidy and Norah Lofts. There are many readers who enjoy historical fiction from the Tudor era.
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