Jane Rochford was sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn & Lady of the Bedchamber to Katherine Howard whom she followed to the scaffold in 1542. Hers is a life of extraordinary drama as a witness to & participant in the greatest events of Henry's reign. She arrived at court as a teenager when Katherine of Aragon was queen. Even before Henry's marriage to Anne her own marriage to George Boleyn brought her into the closest royal circles
- & there she remained through the unfolding spectacle & tragedy of Henry's succession of marriages. She survived the trauma of Anne & George's executions & despite briefly being banned from Court managed to regain her place there to attend on Jane Seymour & Anne of Cleves. Her supposed part in both Anne Boleyn's & Katherine Howard's downfall has led to her being reviled through centuries. In this fascinating biography Julia Fox repudiates the idea of the infamous Lady Rochford & Jane emerges as a rather modern woman forced by brutal circumstance to fend for herself in a politically lethal world.