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Authors: Elizabeth Fremantle
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| M ARY O DELL  | Maid of the chamber to Katherine Parr as Dowager Queen. ( c. 1528–1558+) |
| M ARY S EYMOUR | Daughter of Katherine Parr and Thomas Seymour; raised in Cat Brandon’s household after her father’s execution. (1548–no record of her after 1550) |
| M ARY T UDOR | Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon; committed Catholic; deemed illegitimate; later Queen Mary I, known in history as Bloody Mary. (1516–1558) |
| M EG N EVILLE | Margaret Neville; daughter of Lord Latymer; stepdaughter of Katherine Parr; religious reformer. ( c. 1526– c. 1545) |
| M ISTRESS A STLEY | Katherine Astley (née Champernowne); governess to Elizabeth Tudor; attempted to negotiate marriage between Elizabeth and Thomas Seymour, nearly losing her life for it. ( c. 1502–1565) |
| P AGET | Sir William Paget; clerk of the Privy Council; ally to Bishop Gardiner. ( c. 1506–1563) |
| R OBERT D UDLEY | Later Earl of Leicester; favourite of Elizabeth I. (1532–1588) |
| S ISTER A NNE | Anne Herbert (née Parr); later Countess of Pembroke; younger sister of Katherine Parr; married to William Herbert; served all Henry VIII’s Queens; religious reformer. ( c. 1515–1552) |
| S TANHOPE | Countess of Hertford; later Duchess of Somerset; married to Hertford and therefore sister-in-law of Thomas and Jane Seymour; reputedly unpleasant and ambitious; confirmed religious reformer who was thought to have given Anne Askew gunpowder to speed her demise at the stake. ( c. 1510–1587) |
| S URREY | Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; heir to the Duke of Norfolk; poet thought to have been responsible, with Thomas Wyatt, for introducing the sonnet form to England; executed on trumped-up charges relating to his right to bear certain royal arms but most likely because, in his final days, Henry VIII feared the power of the Howard family was too far-reaching. ( c. 1516–1547) |
| T HOMAS S EYMOUR | Later Baron Seymour of Sudeley and Lord High Admiral; famed for his good looks; fourth husband of Katherine Parr; brother of Hertford and Jane Seymour and therefore brother-in-law to Henry VIII; executed for, among other charges, attempting to marry Elizabeth Tudor. ( c. 1509–1549) |
| U DALL | Nicholas Udall; playwright and intellectual; author of Ralph Roister Doister , thought to be the first English comedy; provost of Eton, a job he lost for unspecified ‘immoral’ reasons; friend of Katherine Parr; a religious reformer. ( c. 1504–1556) |
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