Katherine Howard : the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth queen

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Katherine Howard : the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth queen

Title remainder

the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth queen

Statement of responsibility

Josephine Wilkinson

Creator

• Wilkinson, Josephine

Subject

• Catharine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, -1542
• Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547
• Biography
• Queens -- England -- Biography
• Henry, VIII, King of England, 1491-1547

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Looming out of the encroaching darkness of the February evening was London Bridge, still ornamented with the severed heads of Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham; the terrible price they had paid for suspected intimacy with the queen. Katherine now reached the Tower of London, her final destination. Katherine Howard was the fifth wife of Henry VIII and cousin to the executed Anne Boleyn. She first came to court as a young girl of fourteen, but even prior to that her fate had been sealed and she was doomed to die. She was beheaded in 1542 for crimes of adultery and treason, in one of the most sensational scandals of the Tudor age. The traditional story of Henry VIII's fifth queen dwells on her sexual exploits before she married the king, and her execution is seen as her just dessert for having led an abominable life. However, the true story of Katherine Howard could not be more different

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 942'.052'092
• 942.052092

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction