In the strange proportions of the marriages of Henry VIII (Aragon's duration being by far the longest, though in the telling she tends to be dismissed in a hurry in order to get to the blood and sex; and then three wives in quick succession during his final seven years), Jane Seymour's less then two year reign beside the king is often simplified as the quiet after the storm, when a milk-faced cypher meekly made history first by being the greatest love in the life of a man later immortalized as a bloody tyrant, and then by bearing his madly-desired son. Jane herself has been immortalized for her submissiveness - bound to obey and serve - and for being the one bright flame for a king hurtling viciously through darkness.
But what might Jane have really been - behind the legend ... and if she had survived ... ?
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