Jane Seymour (actress) - Early Life

Early Life

Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg was born 15 February 1951 in Hayes, Middlesex, England, the daughter of John Benjamin Frankenberg, an obstetrician, and Mieke van Trigt, a nurse. Her father was a British Jew whose family was from Poland (Trzepowo village near Plock City). Her mother was a Dutch Protestant who was a prisoner of war during World War II. Seymour was educated at the Arts Educational School in Tring, Hertfordshire, in England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" after King Henry VIII's third wife.

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