Henry VIII
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Catherine Howard's Death
Catherine Howard's reign ended in the same bloody way that Anne Boleyn's did. She was seen as this kind of airhead, really, until recently. We now have to be realised what a victim she'd been,. how she'd been preyed upon. Catherine took colossal risks with her relationship with Thomas Compeper and an attraction developed between them. The king's mid-life crisis sends him off to war, desperate to prove himself by defeating the French. By July 1545, Henry is having dinner on board a battleship just off the south coast of England. A lack of wind means the English navy cannot set sail to engage with the French. But Henry's favourite
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