Jane Rochford was sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and cousin to Katherine Howard, by whose side she perished on the scaffold in 1542.She arrived at court as a 17-year-old joining Catherine of Aragon's household. Her marriage to George Boleyn brought her, with Henry's infatuation with Anne, into the closest royal circles - and there she remained through the unfolding drama and tragedies of Henry's succession of marriages.Jane herself emerges as a rather modern woman forced by brutal circumstance to fend for herself in a politically lethal world.