Jane Seymour

Quiet, conventional, and patiently advanced by her brothers Edward and Thomas Seymour, she replaced Anne Boleyn within days of the latter's execution. Her single great achievement was the birth of the male heir Henry had sought for nearly thirty years — the future Edward VI. She died of puerperal fever twelve days later, the only one of Henry's wives to be given a queen's funeral and to be buried beside him at Windsor.