Discussion: Jane - why didn't they use her earlier on?

"I wonder why they never made any reference to Jane with Catherine or Anne earlier on as she was a servant to both queens? "

"Hi, sorry thought i had added "Seymour" to the title. Oops. I just meant maybe they could have used the queens to say "Thank you Jane," when doing something for the queen, even if they didnt "use" the actress then. In "The Tudors" series, i saw at the end of last episode a clip from the next one, something about Jane being introduced to Henry? I don't remember it very well, but can someone help me refresh my memory? Are they introducing her as someone thats only just appeared on the scene?
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"Hever was Jane as little more closer to Henry's age v/s AB or Kat?"

"I suppose my first question is, do you me Jane Boleyn (Lady Rochford), or Jane Seymour? I think angelosdaughter answered this the best, but just as a another point to throw out, the producers may not have thought the show would have ever progressed to the point where we would need to be introduced to the characters, and then they just got lost in the story. And like angelosdaughter says, Jane Seymour wasn't very prominent until she became an object of the King's affections. The only piece of fiction set during that time that I've ever seen Jane Boleyn have much attention paid to her in was Phillipa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl, and....I'll leave everyone else to make their comments about that!"

"I agree Lettice, it appears to me that The Kings attraction to Jane was partly to do w/ the situation and all the things he had going on at the time w/ Anne. Someone else said this before on a thread.

Question I watched episode 7 again last night I don't know if anyone has, but Cramner wife does anyone know why she was illegal????? I loved the way she spoke her mind to Cramner and Cromwell.
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"You mean why their marriage was illegal? Because in the Catholic church priests are not allowed to marry (still aren't today), I think they mentioned that in one of the earlier episodes, which is why Cranmer had to smuggle her into the country in a wooden box (which was kinda funny and sad at the same time). Also, if you noticed in the earlier season Wolsey had a mistress, not a wife, but essentially they had a relationship that was like a common law marriage but it wasn't legal either. That wasn't uncommon for preists at the time, in fact Pope Paul III had a mistress who mothered his sons. And even after the Reforms of Henry VIII inthe 1530's the preists were still expected to remain celebate. I'm not sure when the rules changed."

"Jane and Henry (on the show) don't have the chemistry that he, and Anne have at all."