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It wasn't Catherine OF Howard its was Catherine Howard and the order of his wives went like this Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Parr, Catherine Howard so to remember them use this: divorced beheaded and died, divorced beheaded survived.


None of his previous wives had given him a son which he desperately wanted.

No it's like this. Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr. and Jane Seymour gave Henry a son who was Edward But he died when he was sixteen.

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She was pressured into it by her family. She was only 17 when she married the King, and he was well into his 40s by this point.

She was probably a little foolish and allowed herself to be coaxed into what most women by this point considered a dangerous marriage.

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