Catherine Howard, also called Katherine Howard was the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (1540-1542), and sometimes known by his reference to her as "the rose without a thorn". Her birth date and place of birth is unknown, (occasionally cited as 1521, probably in London). She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard, a poor younger son of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk. Catherine married Henry VIII on 28 July 1540, at Oatlands Palace in Surrey, … Wikipedia
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fter admitting her relations with Dereham and Culpeper (see King Vs. Queen ), Catherine Howard was banished to Syon Abbey where she would remain for two months. www.pbs.org/wnet/sixwives/meet/ch_handbook_fate.html
miniature portrait of Catherine Howard by Hans Holbein the Younger 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. englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/howard.html#Biography
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