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4 unusual facts about Catherine Howard


Catherine Howard, Countess of Nottingham

In July 1563, Catherine married Charles Howard (1536–1624), later 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral of England, and first Earl of Nottingham (1597).

French hood

It was also championed by Anne Boleyn's cousin and fellow ill-fated wife of Henry VIII, Catherine Howard.

Harry Denford

In 2008 he wrote ROSE WITHOUT A THORN for The Rose (theatre) on London's Bankside which looked at the life of Catherine Howard and this was the first fully costumed brand new full-length play to be performed at this theatre for over 400 years.

Sleaford Castle

Henry VIII stayed at Sleaford twice (once in 1541 with his queen Catherine Howard) and held a State Council at the Castle.


Catherine Steadman

Catherine Steadman is an English actress, best known for playing Nurse Angela Wilson in ITV's 60s drama Breathless and Joan Bulmer, best friend/betrayer of Catherine Howard in the final season of The Tudors.

Margery Wentworth

Margery's first cousins, courtiers Elizabeth and Edmund Howard, were parents to an earlier and later royal wife than her daughter: Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, respectively.

Pontefract Castle

In 1541, during a royal tour of the provinces, it was alleged that King Henry's fifth wife, Queen Catherine Howard, committed her first act of adultery with Sir Thomas Culpeper at Pontefract Castle, a crime for which she was apprehended and executed without trial.


see also

Dorothy Bray, Baroness Chandos

Dorothy's affair with Parr lasted until 1543, when he began to court her niece, Elizabeth Brooke, who had also been one of Catherine Howard's Maids of Honour up until the Queen's execution for High treason.

Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet

He married in 1694 Catherine Howard, daughter of Ralph Howard, at that time Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College.