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Catherine Howard, sometimes spelled as Katheryn Howard, was the fifth wife of Henry Tudor VIII, the lover of Thomas Culpepper and the queen of England. Like Catherine's cousins, Anne Boleyn, George Boleyn and Mary Boleyn, she was a niece of Thomas Howard, the patriarch of the powerful Howard family.
In his book Tudor Queens of England, which profiles 14 consorts and sovereigns, David Loades described Catherine as a "stupid and oversexed adolescent" who "certainly behaved like a whore", and wrote that her denial of a precontract was "a measure of her stupidity"; however, he also said that she died when she was "just 20 years old, a mere child".
Tamzin Claire Merchant [1] (born 4 March 1987) [2] is an English actress and author, best known for her roles as Georgiana Darcy in the film Pride & Prejudice (2005), as Catherine Howard in the Showtime series The Tudors (2009–2010) and as Anne Hale in the WGN America series Salem (2014–2017).
Jul 20, 2020 · Facts about Catherine (aka Katherine) Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, who married the Tudor king on 28 July 1540, just three weeks after his six-month marriage to Anne of Cleves was annulled, and was charged with treason and executed at the Tower of London on 13 February 1542.
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.
Henry marries 17-year-old Catherine Howard and is besotted by her beauty, calling her "his rose without a thorn", and feels rejuvenated.
5th wife of King Henry VIII. Married him at age 19. Accused of adultery about a year later, and executed in the Tower of London.
CATHERINE HOWARD (d. 1542), the fifth queen of Henry VIII, was a daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and a granddaughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of Norfolk (d. 1524).
Catherine Howard was the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England. After he was given evidence that she had had affairs before their marriage and that she was having an affair with her cousin, Thomas Culpepper, Henry had her imprisoned and then beheaded for treason .
KATHERINE HOWARD. Played by Tamzin Merchant. By the time Henry 8 came to marry his fifth wife, he was 49 years old and she a mere 15.