Queen Katherine and the Howards

Reevaluates Katherine Howard’s life, exploring her family’s role and her tragic demise through original research. Writings of certain nineteenth and twentieth-century historians continue to colour our perceptions of the past, but is the picture of Katherine Howard painted by some of them necessarily fair? Was she really a neglected young girl set up by an unscrupulous family to enable them to exercise control over Henry VIII, or a secure teenager brought up in the home of her