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Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Wife, Regent and Author
Catherine Parr was already in love with another man when Henry VIII decided he wanted her. She said yes anyway. It was the only way either of them was getting out of it alive.
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Catherine Parr, Thomas Seymour and the Young Elizabeth
History remembers her as the sensible one. The survivor. The wife who outlived Henry VIII and had the good sense to stay out of trouble.
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Elizabeth Stafford and the Duke of Norfolk: A Decade of Letters, Then Testimony
She refused to leave. So he had her dragged out by the arms. She spent a decade writing letters that nobody acted on. Then the moment came, and she told them everything.
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Anne Askew: Racked in the Tower, Burned at Smithfield, 16 July 1546
She could not stand by the time they burned her, so they carried her to Smithfield in a chair and tied her upright with a chain, because her own legs would not hold her anymore.
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Katherine Willoughby Loses Both Sons to the Sweating Sickness, 14 July 1551
Katherine Willoughby had two sons. On the 14th of July 1551 she lost them both in the same afternoon.
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Anne of Cleves: The Annulment of July 1540 and the King's Beloved Sister
The French Ambassador reported that Anne of Cleves had collapsed in terror when the men arrived and told her that her marriage no longer existed. The men sent to inform her said she took the news without any change of expression. She knew exactly what had happened to the wives who had fought him.
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Catherine Willoughby: Sold at Seven, Married at Fourteen, Exiled for Her Faith
She was seven when her father died and the king sold her wardship to a man who would eventually decide to marry her himself. She was fourteen when that happened. She had no say in it.
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Ethelreda Malte: The Daughter Henry VIII Paid His Tailor to Claim
Henry VIII paid his tailor to claim his daughter. The tailor put it in his will... Ethelreda Malte was born around 1535, the daughter of John Malte, Henry VIII's personal tailor, a man whose work required him to stand in closer physical proximity to the king than almost anyone else at court. He measured him. He fitted him. He stood in silence while Henry VIII decided what kind of king he wanted to look like that day.
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Anne Askew: The Preacher Who Walked Out of Her Marriage, 1545–1546
She walked out of her marriage in 1545 and went to London to preach on street corners. Women were not permitted to speak in church. She did not find this a compelling reason to stay quiet.
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Elizabeth I: The Last of Henry VIII's Children
She was the last of them. Every other child Henry VIII had wanted, made, or broken was dead before she took the throne. She had survived them all by learning, very young, that need was the thing that killed you.