37. The Seymours Went From Relative Nobodies to Members of the Royal Family
On May 20th, just one day after Henry made himself eligible for remarriage by chopping off the head of his wife, Anne Boleyn, he was betrothed to Jane Seymour. They were married ten days later. Politics and politicking in those days revolved around proximity and access to the king, so Jane Seymour’s marriage to Henry VIII immediately catapulted her family from minor country gentry whom few had heard of until then, and into the ranks of major political players.