Jane Seymour was publicly proclaimed Queen on the 4th of June 1536.
She was the third queen and wife of King Henry VIII. Before Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII married twice beforehand. The first woman he was married to was Catherine of Aragon, this marriage lasted from 1509 to 1533. The second woman he married was Anne Bolyen. The marriage between Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII was much shorter, it lasted from 1533 to 1536. The kings second shortest marriage was to Jane Seymour. Jane Seymour married the Tudor monarch just days before she was proclaimed queen. They married on the 30th of May 1536 and she became queen of England just days later on the 4th of June 1536. They became engaged just several days prior to their marriage. The engagement between Henry VIII and Jane Seymour strongly suggests that they were courting each other while the king was still married to Anne Boleyn, as Anne Boleyn was only executed a day before the announcment of their engagement and she was only arrested a few weeks before her execuation: Anne Boleyn was arrested on the 2nd of May 1536 for charges that included adultry and treason.
Jane was only proclaimed queen, she was never crowned queen of England. The reason that she was never crowned was due to there being a plague in London at the time time.
But she did go on to get pregant. Unlike Anne who was pregnant when she got married to Henry, Jane was not - it would be several months after her marriage to the king that she would fall pregant with his child. She first became preganant around Christmas in 1536. However, she miscarried the child. It didn't take her long to get pregnant again though, as by January 1537, Jane Seymour was pregnant again. And this time, she carried the child to term. She gave birth to the future King Edward VI on the 12th of October 1537. Jane gave birth to the son the Henry had always wanted, and the son that his first two wives failed to produce. But, even though Henry finally got the son he always wanted, it wasn't an entirley successful pregnancy - Jane had difficulty giving birth and it ended in tragedy as it seems as if her death was caused several weeks after the birth of her son from complications she went through at childbirth. Jane died on the 24th of October 1537. It resulted her being queen for just over a year and one of the shortest monarchs in English history. But, even though her time as queen was short, she did make an impact, as she gave Henry VIII the son he had always wanted, she had brough Henry's first child - Mary Tudor (later to be queen Mary I), from his first marriage, back to court from being banished by the King and helped restore Mary Tudor to the line of succession. She also seems to be the woman that captured Henry's heart the most, as he refered to her as his true love and requested to be buried next to her upon his death. To this day, both Henry VIII and Jane Seymour are buried next to each other in St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. Jane was queen from the 4th of June 1536 to the 24th of October 1537.
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