What did Jane Seymour & Edward VI look like? | History Documentary & Facial Reconstructions

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We had a great time this week diving into the research on Jane Seymour and her son, Edward VI. Jane is an (admittedly) overlooked wife for me, but I really enjoyed making this video and recreations.

Jane Seymour is one of Henry VIII’s most enigmatic wives. Despite being the one to give birth to a son, Henry’s greatest desire, she died not long after the birth. We know very little about her - lost to history are her personal thoughts, motivations, and feelings.

Henry’s choice of Jane Seymour as his next Queen puzzled the Tudor court. Jane was from a family whose ties to English royalty reached far back, but the Seymour’s had recently fallen on harder times.

Jane was entirely different from her predecessor, Anne Boleyn. Where Anne was hot tempered, Jane was demure and obedient. Where Anne was witty and charming, Jane was hardly educated and quiet. But these very qualities might have been what attracted King Henry to her in the first place - they represented a return to peace, and to the status quo.

In addition to few portraits, we also have very few descriptions of Jane from her own time. This is what we know:

Jane was considered quite plain, even for the standards of the time. She was 27 when she married the King, old by Tudor standards, with very fair skin, dark blue or grey eyes, and was a medium height.

Ambassador Chapuys wrote that she was of “no great beauty”, and Sir John Russell remarked that she needed a lot of adornment, like fine fabrics and jewelry, to shine, whereas her predecessor Anne Boleyn needed very little.

However, as we know, her unassuming appearance and demeanor helped her greatly in her marriage to the king.


0:00 Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon
2:36 Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn
6:25 Jane Seymour
11:25 Edward VI
18:34 Edward's Death & Legacy
20:23 What did Jane & Edward Look Like?
22:42 Facial Reconstructions Revealed


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