In this record-breaking episode, we begin with a deep dive into Tudor medicine, conception, pregnancy, and the complicated ways sixteenth-century people understood the female body. Then we return to Jane herself following the timeline of her life during her last days outside the chamber walls.

We reconstruct the world of Tudor confinement: its protocols, preparations, rituals, rooms, rules, and the women who inhabited them. We meet the midwives and examine the knowledge and experience they brought into a space from which men were largely excluded... until now.

And finally, after months of waiting, Jane Seymour crosses the threshold, and enters the chamber, and we are going with her.

And now we wait.

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