Margery Seymour

Jane's mother

The story so far…

Week 18: Falcons

At supper the king sits next to Lady Mergery, his hostess. She was a beauty in her day, and by the king’s exquisite attention you would think she was one still; she has had ten children, and six of them are living, and three are in this room.

Week 27: Master of Phantoms (2/5)

Lady Margery at Carew’s home in Surrey, ‘grimly triumphant’ as she prepares her daughter to be queen. She helps Bess with Jane’s gable hood. ‘You’ve got a bigger head than I thought, Jane.’

Week 31: Salvage (Part 1/3)

Lady Margery’s glance stabs the old dames. None of them have kept their looks as she has, nor have their girls become queen. She makes a deep, straight-backed curtsey to her daughter, then rises with an audible snap of knee-joints. The poet Skelton once compared her to a primrose. But now she is sixty.

Jane’s mother leads the family delegation at court to ascertain the state of her daughter’s maidenhead.