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Agnes Tilney, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk: The Household at Lambeth
She ran a household where grown men crept into the girls' dormitory at night. She knew. She burned the evidence before anyone could take it from her.
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Katherine Howard: The Right Surname and Almost None of the Resources
Katherine Howard was born around 1523, the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, into a family that had the right surname and almost none of the resources that surname was supposed to guarantee. Edmund Howard was the younger brother of the Duke of Norfolk, which made him well-connected in the way that younger brothers of powerful men are always well-connected, adjacent to consequence without any of its material benefits.