{"product_id":"queen-katherine-and-the-howards-a-tudor-family-on-the-brink-of-disaster-9781036112523","title":"Queen Katherine and the Howards: A Tudor Family on the Brink of Disaster","description":"\u003cb\u003eReevaluates Katherine Howard's life, exploring her family's role and her tragic demise through original research.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritings 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 illustrious step-grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, who treated her well? Ultimately, was her untimely death the fault of others or the result of Katherine's own ill-advised choices?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough original research and use of primary sources, \u003ci\u003eQueen Katherine and the Howards: A Tudor Family on the Brink of Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e examines the Howards' journey from practising law in East Anglia to their elevation to the dukedom of Norfolk by Richard III and, following the Yorkist defeat at Bosworth, their decades of service and loyalty to the fledgling Tudor dynasty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe final weeks of Katherine Howard's short life, presented as a day-to-day narrative, enables the reader to appreciate how terrifyingly quickly the old duchess and Katherine's associates, most involved against their wishes, were rounded up and consigned to the Tower for concealing what they knew of her lively past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe last chapters examine how the third Duke of Norfolk, Katherine's paternal uncle, although surviving the turmoil of the scandal and continuing in his roles as Lord Treasurer and Henry VIII's leading general, remained highly vulnerable; he and his son eventually fell victim to the king's deadly paranoia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoberts, Marilyn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Marilyn Roberts holds a Masters Degree in The History and Politics of the Administration of Education in England and Wales. She worked in education for several years and was a Collections Care coordinator at Epworth Old Rectory Museum, the childhood home of John and Charles Wesley. She has lectured to groups and societies on historical topics for over twenty years and has published books on King John and Magna Carta, the Mowbray Family, Queen Victoria's descendants, Royal Family Trees and the Mountbattens.","brand":"Pen and Sword History","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51259892498706,"sku":"9781036112523","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_24ccdd33-d774-4264-966a-08e9656dfbbe.jpg?v=1746631389","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/queen-katherine-and-the-howards-a-tudor-family-on-the-brink-of-disaster-9781036112523","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}