Catherine Parr was not simply the sixth (and last) wife of King Henry VIII of England. She was a gifted scholar and capable leader who helped cultivate the same qualities in her stepdaughter—the ...

Henry married his first wife, the daughter of Spanish King Ferdinand II and the widow of Henry’s older brother, in 1509. She gave birth to the future Queen Mary I in 1516 but failed to produce ...

Henry weds Catherine after Cromwell's execution, and since the show's penultimate episode shows Thomas' arrest, we doubt that ...

She was the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, whose marriage had united Spain. At three years of age Catherine was betrothed to King Henry VII's oldest son Arthur, only a year younger ...

King Henry was Parr’s third husband, ... Queen’s Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle, ... Shortly after Henry’s death, Catherine fell ill and died in 1548, ...

Seizing on the king’s dissatisfaction with his outspoken queen, the English court’s conservative Catholic faction convinced him to sign a warrant for Catherine’s arrest on charges of heresy.

Born on Feb. 18, 1516, in Greenwich, England, to King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, ... King Charles and Queen Camilla Arrive at Royal Ascot to Cheer on Their Horse Bred by Queen Elizabeth.