Catherine Howard

Catherine Howard

Catherine Howard (c. 1523 – 13 February 1542), also spelt Katheryn Howard, was Queen of England from 1540 until 1541 as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, a cousin to Anne Boleyn (the second wife of Henry VIII), and the niece of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. Thomas Howard was a prominent politician at Henry's court, and he secured her a place in the household of Henry's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, where she caught the King's interest. She married him on 28 July 1540 at Oatlands Palace in Surrey, just 19 days after the annulment of his marriage to Anne. He was 49, and she was between 15 and 21 years old, though it is widely accepted that she was 17 at the time of her marriage to Henry VIII. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Catherine Howard has received more than 10,344,911 page views. Her biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Catherine Howard is the 25th most popular companion (up from 56th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 215th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Companion.

Catherine Howard is most famous for being the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. She was married to the king for a mere 18 months before he had her executed for treason and adultery.