Jane Seymour - Biography

Last Editor: jenniferswatton				Jane Seymour Biography -   Name : Jane Seymour Profession : Actress/Singer Birth name : Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg Height : 5' 4" (1.63 m) Personal quotes : "You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you Spouse : James Keach (15 May 1993 - present) 2 children David Flynn (18 July 1981 - May 1992) (divorced) 2 children Geoffrey Planer (1977 - 1978) (divorced)

Jane Seymour Trivia -

Running neck and neck with Patty Duke for the title of "The Queen of TV Movies". She appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song "Voices That Care." Official Spokesperson for UNICEF International Ambassador for Childhelp USA Honorary Chairperson for City Hearts Stepdaughter, Jennifer Flynn Children with David Flynn: Katherine Flynn (b. 1981) and Sean Flynn (b. 1986). Twin boys, John Stacy Keach and Kristopher Steven Keach (b. 1995), with James Keach. Was named an Officer of the Order of British Empire (OBE) by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on New Year's Eve, 1999 Her twin sons were named Johnny and Kris after family friends Johnny Cash and Christopher Reeve. Stepmother of Kalen Keach Her daughter, Katherine Flynn, was Miss Golden Globe 2001. Katie also attends Columbia University. Her eyes are different colors. Jane and her husband James Keach own a 14th-century manor house outside Bath, England called St. Catherine's Court. Cunard Lines offers a four-night stay at St. Catherine's as an add-on to their Queen Elizabeth 2 cruises. (They don't say if you'll actually meet Jane or James, though.) Measurements: 35-24-36 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Oldest daughter of John Frankenberg and Mieke van Trigt. She has two younger sisters, named Sally and Anne. She is the daughter of a British obstetrician and his Dutch wife. Thanks to her mother, Miss Seymour is also able to speak Dutch very well, which she once briefly demonstrated in an interview with the Dutch television. Her house was used for recording Radiohead's "OK Computer". Sister-in-law of actor Stacy Keach Daughter-in-law of actor Stacy Keach Sr. Former daughter-in-law of Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim Odd-eyed: Her right eye is green and her left eye is brown. Was one of two actresses to screen test for the role of Meggie Cleary in the epic mini-series, "The Thorn Birds" (1983) (mini). The other actress was Rachel Ward, who ended up winning the part because producers thought Jane wasn't "vulnerable" enough. Her house was used for recording The Cure's "Wild Mood Swings" Became a U.S. Citizen on February 11,2005; wore a cream-colored suit to ceremony at the downtown Los Angeles Convention Center. She sat between more than a dozen U.S. military personnel who also received their citizenship. Despite her "very English" public image and name, she has no ethnic English ancestry - her father is the son of Eastern European immigrants, and her mother is Dutch. Her twin boys were born in 1995, on November 30th. She was 44 years, 9 months, and 15 days.

Jane Seymour Detailed Biography -

The English ballad The Death of Queen Jane (Child #170) is about the death of Jane Seymour following the birth of Prince Edward. The facts related in the ballad are historically inaccurate, but apparently reflect the popular view at the time of the events surrounding her death. The historical fact is that Prince Edward was born naturally, and that his mother succumbed to infection and died twelve days later. In the ballad, during long labour Queen Jane repeatedly asks that her side be opened to save the baby. In most versions, she is refused repeatedly until finally someone-- usually King Henry-- succumbs to her pleas and allows the surgery that results in her death. Most versions of the song end with the contrast between the joy of the birth of the prince and the grief of the death of the queen. From version 170A: The baby was christened with joy and much mirth, Whilst poor Queen Jane's body lay cold under earth: There was ringing and singing and mourning all day, The princess Elizabeth went weeping away Jane was widely praised as "the fairest, the discreetest, and the most meritous of all Henry VIII's wives" in the centuries after her death. One historian, however, took serious umbrage to this view in the 19th century. Victorian beauty and much-praised scholar, Agnes Strickland, author of encyclopaedic studies of French, Scottish and English royal women said that the story of "Anne Boleyn's last agonised hours" and Henry VIII's swift remarriage to Jane Seymour "is repulsive enough, but it becomes tenfold more abhorrent when the woman who caused the whole tragedy is loaded with panegyric." Modern historians, particularly Alison Weir and Lady Antonia Fraser, paint a favourable portrait of a woman of discretion and good-sense--"a strong-minded matriarch in the making," says Weir. Others are not convinced. Hester W. Chapman and Professor E.W. Ives resurrected Strickland's view of Jane Seymour, and believe she played a crucial and conscious role in the cold-blooded plot to bring Anne Boleyn to the scaffold. Dr. David Starkey and Karen Lindsey are both relatively dismissive of Jane's importance in comparison to Henry's other queens--particularly Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Parr. Joanna Denny, Marie Louise Bruce and Carolly Erickson also refrain from giving overly-sympathetic accounts of Jane's life and career.