Six Wives: Katherine Howard
Step forward Queen Katherine, victim or vixen?
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鈥檚 exhibition Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII鈥檚 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鈥檚 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?
Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice Smith, audio editor is Ella Blaxill and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.
All music courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
