Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
Jane Seymour occupies a unique place in English history. She was Henry VIII's third wife, the woman who finally gave him the son he had long desired, and the only one of his six wives to die as queen. While Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard met their deaths on the executioner's block, Jane died peacefully in her bed at Hampton Court Palace in October 1537. Her death was a tragedy for the Tudor court, but it also marked the beginning of one of the grandest royal funerals of the sixteenth century. Unlike many other Tudor monarchs and queens whose graves have been disturbed or examined over the centuries, Jane Seymour's body has remained undisturbed for nearly 500 years. Her coffin still rests beneath the floor of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, beside the husband who would eventually choose to be buried next to her.
Jane Seymour occupies a unique place in English history. She was Henry VIII's third wife, the woman who finally gave him the son he had long desired, and the only one of his six wives to die as queen. While Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard met their deaths on the executioner's block, Jane died peacefully in her bed at Hampton Court Palace in October 1537. Her death was a tragedy for the Tudor court, but it also marked the beginning of one of the grandest royal funerals of the sixteenth century. Unlike many other Tudor monarchs and queens whose graves have been disturbed or examined over the centuries, Jane Seymour's body has remained undisturbed for nearly 500 years. Her coffin still rests beneath the floor of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, beside the husband who would eventually choose to be buried next to her.
