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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. Being young, enslaved to her passions, and ...
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.
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.
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).
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).
One small screen portrayal of Catherine Howard that is noteworthy is Tamzin Merchant’s Catherine in the hit show, The Tudors (2007-2010). Merchant portrays the queen in a more complex and sympathetic light. Merchant’s Catherine is young, childlike, naïve, flirtatious and excitable.
Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, remains one of the most tragic and misunderstood figures in Tudor history. Her short time as queen (1540–1541) ended in scandal and her subsequent execution at just around 19 years of age.