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Jane Seymour (about 1508 – October 24, 1537), the third wife of Henry VIII who served as Queen of England from 1536 to 1537. Jane became betrothed to the king the day after Anne Boleyn’s execution, and in stark contrast to Anne, was said to be strict and formal, swiftly putting a stop to some of the extravagances of the queen’s household. In October 1537 she gave birth to the son the king had so long desired, however less than two weeks after the birth, Jane died of postnatal complications. Their son would later become King Edward VI. Jane was the only of Henry’s six wives to receive a queen’s funeral, and is buried beside him in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. This is among a cluster of local streets developed in the 1930s as part of the Harrow Garden Village estate, the Metropolitian Railway’s flagship building project which followed the expansion of the railways into the counties of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex, the so-called “Metro-land”. The Tudors were a popular theme with developers, most likely chosen after the style of housing, dubbed at the time as “Tudorbethan semis”.
