In this take, after setting daughter Jane (Emily Bader) up with the elusive Guildford Dudley (Edward Bluemel), Lady Frances finds herself in the throes of passion after taking a much younger lover in the shape of Lord Stan Dudley (Henry Ashton).
Using her womanly wiles, Stan falls head over heels for the Lady, who uses her control over him to her advantage.
The storyline adds to a growing trend in Hollywood of women having a later-in-life sexual awakening thanks to a younger man.
Most notably, Nicole Kidman finding love with Zac Efron in Netflix’s A Family Affair, and Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine having a May-December romance in The Idea Of You.
And The Split star Chancellor is thriving at the chance to take on such a role, albeit with a notably less romantic twist.
Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com, Chancellor said: “It’s kind of, in a way, funny, because the young guy is crazy about the older woman, and she can’t quite be bothered with him, and she just wants to have sex with him.
“That’s funny, right? Because you don’t see it that much, but also maybe it is a hidden truth.
“Maybe there are more romances going on with much younger men and older women… Sometimes, I thought, maybe this happens more often than you know, and it’s been kept a bit under the radar, and now consciousness is rising on many levels, and maybe this is one of them.”
Lady Frances is clearly a woman who gets what she wants, and in My Lady Jane, she finds herself doing whatever she can to hold on to power within the Royal court.
At the start of the series, this means marrying off her eldest daughter Jane to Lord Guildford Dudley, whose reputation for being a party-loving cad precedes him.
“You probably can’t differentiate power and love, because without power, then your family could easily fall apart,” she said.
“You could easily be, you know, things can go very dire. So you need the power to position yourself in order to almost remain functioning as a family.
“I think the period was asking, that time was asking, [and] forcing people into these quite extreme forms of behaviour.”
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