but also a lot of research has been done, minute research — i have done it myself — on anne boleyn'son her sister, mary boleyn... who set her up...that sort of thing. yes, that kind of thing. but also in the detail, you can tell a different story now because we know so much more. so back to jane seymour. number three. how much did we know before and how much have you had to create from your own imagination the character that you believe is accurate? as i said, i inferred her character from what i could, from the sources but i had to create a lot for her early life. i used the skeleton framework of fact we have — we have a fragment here and a fragment there — and sort of looking retrospectively from what came later, to create her early life, because these books are about whole lives, they're not just about their periods of queenship and they are all written each from each queen's point of view, solely from that point of view. it's a fairly obvious question but an important one, i think — how do you go about trying to create the conversation that somebody like jane seymour would have?

series of novels with the story of the third of his queens, marrying henry after the execution of anne boleynim the only son he ever had. a birth that brought about her own death. this is fiction from a historian who moves easily from the politics and statecraft of the tudor era to the inner lives of characters which she can only imagine. welcome. everyone thinks they know quite a bit about all the six wives butjane seymour springs very much out from the pages of this book and it is someone we know about surprisingly little, even now, even after all the of attention. that is absolutely true and there are ten two views of jane seymour. was she the unique and willing tool of an ambitious family and an ardent and powerful king? or was she as ambitious as her brothers and did she conspire to bring down the queen she served? how'd you describe the conclusion that you come to in the course of these pages? a novelist has to come down on one view or another and i went through the sources forensically, looking to clues as to her character and there was no evidence apart from her saying she would denig

. —— how it was structured. 0n anne boleyn‘s for... how it was structured. 0n anne boleyn's for... you can tell a different story because we know so much for. how much did we know before about jane seymour and how much did you have to create? i inferred her character from the sources but created a lot of her early life. we have a fragment here and there and looking retrospectively from what came later. these books are about the whole lives, notjust the period of kinship and they are written from each point of view. how did you go about trying to create the conversation that somebody like jane seymour would have. her style of speech, her habits, the way she would move, the social in the rate should? having studied the period from more decades that i would like to remember, it comes and you put yourself inside that person's head and that is the difference between writing fiction and history. how difficult is that to move between the two. you say historical sources are important to you fiction as they are important to you fiction as they are the foundation of the historical writing bu

series of novels with the story of the third of his queens, marrying henry after the execution of anne boleyn. this is fiction from a historian who moves easily from the politics and statecraft of the tudor era to the inner lives of characters which she can only imagine. welcome. everyone thinks they know quite a bit about all the six wives butjane seymour springs very much out from the pages of this book and it is someone we know about surprisingly little, even now, even after all the of attention. that is absolutely true and there are ten two views of jane seymour. was she the unique and willing tool of an ambitious family and an ardent and powerful king? or was she as ambitious as her brothers and did she conspire to bring down the queen she served? how'd you describe the conclusion that you come to in the course of these pages? a novelist has to come down on one view or another and i went through the sources forensically, looking to clues as to her character and there was no evidence apart from her saying she would denigrate ann bolyen in henry viii's ears a few weeks before and's fall, t