Did Anne Stanhope, Edward Seymour...

Did Anne Stanhope, Edward Seymour's wife, really have scandalous affairs?

Tudor History with Claire Ridgway by Claire Ridgway
E586
Feb 19, 2021
08:49

Episode notes

In this edition of Tudor Fan Q&A, historian and author Claire Ridgway answers a question about a character featured in Showtime's "The Tudors" series.

You can see this podcast as a video at the following link:
https://youtu.be/ex2q9kL-2Nc

Colleen, from California, wanted to know whether Anne Seymour (née Stanhope), wife of Edward Seymour, really had scandalous affairs with Sir Francis Bryan and her own brother-in-law, Thomas Seymour, and if Thomas really fathered one of her sons. Claire looks at the Anne Seymour of the series compared to the Anne of the contemporary sources, and shares the truth about this maligned duchess.