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Sep 2, 2020 · By Kaleena Fraga | Edited By Leah Silverman. Published September 2, 2020. Updated February 27, 2024. Catherine Howard was just a teenager when she married the middle-aged King Henry VIII in 1540 — and she was decapitated on his orders just two years later.
Jan 31, 2015 · Catherine Howard: Facts, Biography, Portraits & Information. Catherine Howard was a cousin of Henry VIII’s ill-fated second queen, Anne Boleyn; and like Anne, Catherine would die on the scaffold at Tower Green. Her birthdate is unknown, but her father was the younger brother of the duke of Norfolk.
Apr 28, 2019 · Updated on April 28, 2019. Catherine Howard (c. 1523–February 13, 1542) was the fifth wife of Henry VIII. During her brief marriage, she was officially the Queen of England. Howard was beheaded for adultery and unchastity in 1542. Fast Facts: Catherine Howard.
Catherine Howard was the fifth wife of Henry VIII. She was probably just a teenager when he chose her to be his Queen; he was more than 30 years her senior. Although the King called Catherine his 'rose without a thorn', it soon became clear that she had a scandalous past – and present.
Apr 5, 2019 · The fifth wife of King Henry VIII who was executed in 1542 on charges of treason, Catherine (Katherine) Howard’s reputation has long been tied up with ideas of sexual promiscuity and naivety. Conor Byrne reassesses the facts about Henry VIII’s young Tudor queen, exploring the truth of her relationship with courtier Thomas Culpeper and ...
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Catherine Howard was beheaded on February 13, 1542, in the Tower of London. Her execution followed the discovery by her husband, Henry VIII, of claimed affairs before their marriage and of alleged adultery afterward.
Catherine Howard (between 1520 and 1525 – February 13, 1542), also called Katherine or Kathryn [1] was the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (1540-1542). She is sometimes known by his reference to her as "the rose without a thorn." Her birth date and place of birth is unknown but is occasionally cited as 1521, probably in London.
