Catherine Howard: The Adulterous Wife of Henry VIII
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Henry's fifth queen is best known to history as the stupid adolescent who got herself fatally entangled with lovers, and ended up on the block. However, there was more to her than that. She was a symptom of the power struggle which was going on in the court in 1539-40 between Thomas Cromwell and his conservative rivals, among whom the Howard family figured prominently.
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Politics and sexuality were inextricably mixed, especially when the king's potency was called into question. It is time to have another look at Catherine's brief but important reign.
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