Execution of Catherine Howard + Marriage to Katherine Parr

• Catherine Howard


  Henry VIII's fifth wife
• Catherine Howard was sexually experienced despite her youthfulness
• There were allegations of an affair between Catherine Howard and her distant cousin, Thomas Culpepper
• Catherine Howard and her lady of the bedchamber were executed for treason

  13 February 1542
• Several of Catherine Howard's relatives were also implicated and disgraced
• Katherine Parr


  Henry VIII's sixth wife, who was Protestant
• Norfolk was fully aware of the danger which Katherine Parr, as a Protestant, posed to his ambitions and tried unsuccessfully to embroil her in accusations of heresy