ladyjanerochford:Jane Parker in the Tudors: Fact or Fiction (3/?) Jane’s Testimony Perhaps one of th
ladyjanerochford:Jane Parker in the Tudors: Fact or Fiction (3/?) Jane’s Testimony Perhaps one of the most atrocious and unhistorical scenes not just of Jane’s but of the entire series in general, the only saving grace I can say for it, is that this scene is relatively short. Designed solely to place Jane officially in the role of villain and to set her own execution up to be viewed by the audience as a sort of “karma”. Jane is brought in for questioning by Cromwell, along with several of Anne’s ladies. But while the ladies are given a more sympathetic light, sobbing over the fact that they know they are betraying their mistress, and scared of what will become of them if they don’t, Jane is shown as using the interrogation as a way out of her abusive marriage and gleefully sending an innocent woman to the block in the process. While it’s true that for centuries many a historian has claimed that Jane was the one responsible for sealing George’s fate with testimony that he had had an incestuous relationship with his sister, contemporary accounts don’t back this up. We do know that as one of Anne’s Ladies of the Privy Chamber Jane would have been interrogated by Cromwell and other nobles as to the Queen’s behavior and her relationship with several gentlemen. But we can not say for certain what Jane, or any other of the other ladies for that matter, told Cromwell in those interrogations. No eyewitness to the trials named or alluded to Jane, the main three suspects instead seemed to be The Countess of Worcester, Lady Wingfield and a “Nan Cobham”. Jane only shows up once in Chapuys’ account of George’s trial, when Cromwell asked George if Anne had told his wife that the King was no good in bed. We do not know how Cromwell got this bit of information, but it’s possible and probably that Jane, trying to keep her own head on her shoulders, told this to Cromwell.and just as bad as what is shown in this scene is what isn’t shown afterwards. Far from abandoning her husband to his fate, we know that shortly after George was arrested, Jane somehow managed the nearly impossible feat of gaining royal permission to send her husband a message of comfort, in which she asked after his well being and promised to try and speak to the King for George. He in turn wanted to send her a message of thanks and seemed briefly comforted though he would break down crying afterward. Because of the awful presentation of Jane as being malicious, and of propagating a myth that has no historical foundation, this scene is 110% fiction and absolute garbage. -- source link