Tudor’s Week, Day Six: Favorite Couple - Jane Seymour and King Henry VIII
“Just like Anne before her, Jane refused to become the king’s mistress but, unlike her, did so sweetly and self-effacingly. Probably even the Boleyns did not know exactly when Henry became besotted with the woman who was such a contrast to the spirited Anne, but Jane was on the scene by the end of February, when the king made her brother, Edward, a gentleman of the privy chamber. […] ***It was a performance worthy of Katherine in her youth.*** On hearing of it, Henry declared how Jane ‘had behaved most virtuously’, and from now on he would visit her only in the presence of her relatives. Naturally, the carefully tutored Jane declined this too. And, equally naturally, Henry admired her virtue even more.” - Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe