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“as ever, people tolerate in their friends what they deplore in their enemies,”
― Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
― Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
“> *where Anne Boleyn had been executed.*
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> �*The stones beneath the altar were prised up. Jane Boleyn and Catherine Howard were buried quickly next to the mouldering remains of Lady Salisbury, Thomas More, Jane’s husband, and another queen of England�. The few attendees walked out of the little church into the courtyard, where the scaffold still stood. The body of Catherine Howard was left to a vast silence. In all probability, she had not yet reached her twenty-first birthday.”
― Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
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> �*The stones beneath the altar were prised up. Jane Boleyn and Catherine Howard were buried quickly next to the mouldering remains of Lady Salisbury, Thomas More, Jane’s husband, and another queen of England�. The few attendees walked out of the little church into the courtyard, where the scaffold still stood. The body of Catherine Howard was left to a vast silence. In all probability, she had not yet reached her twenty-first birthday.”
― Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
“his attitude and general demeanour rather offensive� and concluded that he must have been tipsy to behave so atrociously or, as one of them put it with leaden subtext, “I fear he had dined well.�17”
― The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
― The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
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| Reading the 20th ...: Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen (April 2020) | 129 | 26 | May 26, 2020 11:31AM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: 2018 New to You Authors | 594 | 127 | Aug 08, 2020 04:33PM | |
| The History Book ...: RAGAN - PERSONAL READING LIST - "To Be Read" List (2023) | 51 | 298 | Jun 29, 2021 05:12PM |
