Six Wives: Katherine Howard

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Six wives - six lives that we think we know everything about. But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII and, in most cases, tragic ends, here were six women who shaped history in their own unique ways.

In a special six part series, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb brings together the most illuminating interviews about the six wives from the Not Just the Tudors archive. She also explores some of the latest research and speaks to Dr. Charlotte Bolland - curator of the National Portrait Gallery’s current exhibition Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens - to paint an even fuller portrait of each of the six wives.

In this fifth episode, Suzannah is joined by Gareth Russell, Dr. Nicola Clark and Dr. Charlotte Bolland to recount the life of Katherine Howard, whom Henry VIII married in July 1540 and who died with her head on the block less than two years later. Of all of Henry’s queens, Katherine Howard has been the one most subject to the judgements of posterity. But those judgements have been strangely dichotomous - was she victim or vixen?

Not Just The Tudors is presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. It was edited by Ella Blaxill and produced by Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:26.0	The Open University, the future is open. Six wives, six lives, six lives that we think we know everything about.
0:42.9	But beyond their mostly doomed marriages to Henry VIII, and in most cases, tragic ends,
0:48.8	here were six women who shaped history in their own unique ways.
0:54.0	The National Portrait Gallery in London is hosting a new exhibition called Six Lives,
0:59.0	displaying the images that have shaped our perception of Henry the 8s Queens.
1:05.0	It was just the excuse I needed to bring together the most illuminating interviews about
1:10.0	them from the not just the Tudors's archives. Across six episodes I'll also
1:14.6	be exploring some of the latest research and speaking to the curator of the
1:18.7	National Portrait Gallery's exhibition Dr Charlotte Bol, to paint an even fuller portrait of each of Henry
1:26.2	the eight's wives.
1:27.8	Our episodes have already considered Catherine of Aragon, Anne Berlin, Jane Seymour, and Anne of Cleves.
1:35.1	Today we turn to Henry VIII's fifth and youngest wife,
1:39.2	Catherine Howard, whom he married in July 1540, and who died with her head on the block less than two years later.
1:47.0	In this episode I'll be speaking to Gareth Russell, Dr. Nicola Clark, and the National Portrait Gallery's Dr Charlotte Boland.
1:55.8	I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb, and this is not just the Tudors. Of all Henry the's Queen's, Catherine Howard has been the one most subject to the judgments of posterity.
2:10.0	But those judgments have been strangely decotomous.
2:13.0	On the one hand, you have this sort of thing.
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