Editing Jane Seymour (actress) (section)

==Early life==
Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg was born on 15 February 1951<ref>{{cite web|title=Jane Seymour featured article on TheGenealogist|url=https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2015/who-do-you-think-you-are/jane-seymour-257/|website=TheGenealogist|access-date=18 August 2015}}</ref> in [[Uxbridge]], [[Middlesex]] (now part of [[Greater London]]), England, to Mieke van Tricht (1914–2007), a nurse, and Benjamin John Frankenberg [[Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists|FRCOG]] (1914{{ndash}}1990), a distinguished [[gynaecologist]] and [[obstetrician]].<ref name="Frankenberg_obit">{{cite journal|title=B J Frankenberg|journal=BMJ: British Medical Journal|volume=301|issue=6760|pages=1096–1097|pmc=1664208|year=1990|doi=10.1136/bmj.301.6760.1096}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ed81AQAAIAAJ|title=The New York Times Biographical Service|date=1 July 1980|publisher=New York Times & Arno Press}}</ref> Her father was [[Jewish]]; he was born in England to a family from [[Nowe Trzepowo]], a village in Poland.<ref name="gruen">{{cite web|last=Gruen |first=Judy |url=http://www.aish.com/j/as/War_and_Remembrance.html |title=War and Remembrance |publisher=Aish.com |date=2010-11-07 |access-date=16 June 2014}}</ref> Her mother was a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[Protestantism|Protestant]] (with family from [[Deventer]]) who was a [[prisoner of war]] during [[World War II]] and had lived in the [[Dutch East Indies]] (now [[Indonesia]]).<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news|last=Nightingale|first=Benedict|title=Jane Seymour, Queen of the Mini-Series |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/16/arts/television-jane-seymour-queen-of-the-mini-series.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |access-date=2 November 2011 |date=16 October 1988}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Ames|first=Katrine|title=Jane Seymour Captures America|newspaper=Ocala Star-Banner|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rusTAAAAIBAJ&pg=4534,2676157&dq=jane-seymour-captures-america&hl=en|access-date=7 November 2009}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Elaine Lipworth |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/20/jane-seymour-family-values-austenland |title=Jane Seymour: My family values &#124; Life and style |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=16 June 2014}}</ref> Seymour has stated she learned Dutch from her mother and her fellow survivors from the Japanese internment camp, who frequently spent holidays together in the Netherlands when she was a child. Encouraged by her parents (who sent her to live with family friends in [[Geneva]] to practise her languages), she learned to speak fluent French.<ref>{{cite news|author=Emma Garland |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/oct/24/actress-jane-seymour-learning-languages-changed-my-life |title=Jane Seymour Everyone should know another language|newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=4 May 2020}}</ref>

Seymour's paternal grandfather Lee Grahame had come to live in the East End of London after escaping the Czarist [[pogrom]]s when he was 14. He is listed in the 1911 census as living in [[Bethnal Green]] working as a hairdresser and went on to establish his own company.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jane Seymour featured article on TheGenealogist|url=https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2015/who-do-you-think-you-are/jane-seymour-257/|website=TheGenealogist.co.uk|access-date=18 August 2015}}</ref> Seymour's father Benjamin qualified at the [[UCL Medical School]] in 1938.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=35217|page=4009|date=11 July 1941}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{London Gazette |issue=37407 |date=28 December 1945 |page=92 |supp=y |nolink=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=41745 |date=19 June 1959 |page=4085 |supp=y |nolink=y}}</ref> He joined the medical branch of the [[RAFVR]] after the outbreak of war, serving in [[England]], [[Belgium]], [[Italy]] and [[South Africa]],<ref name="Frankenberg_obit"/> ending his service as a [[squadron leader]] with a [[mention in despatches]].<ref name="auto1"/> After the war, Frankenberg continued his career at various London hospitals, including [[St Leonard's Hospital, Hackney]], the East End Maternity Hospital, the City of London Maternity Hospital and finally [[Hillingdon Hospital]], for which he designed the maternity unit.<ref name="Frankenberg_obit"/> A close associate of [[Patrick Steptoe]], he assisted in pioneering discussions on [[in-vitro fertilisation]] and published papers on adolescent and teenage sexual behaviours.<ref name="Frankenberg_obit"/>

Seymour was educated at [[Tring Park School for the Performing Arts]] in [[Hertfordshire]]. She chose the screen name Jane Seymour, after the English queen [[Jane Seymour]], because it seemed more saleable.<ref name="nytimes"/> One of Seymour's notable features is [[heterochromia]], making her right eye brown and her left eye green.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/beauty/g2844/celebrities-with-heterochromia-different-colored-eyes/|title=9 Famous People Whose Eyes Are Two Different Colors|date=9 October 2017}}</ref>