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Authors: Elizabeth Fremantle

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F
RANCES
 B
RANDON
 
Lady Frances Grey, Countess of Dorset; wife of the Marquess
of Dorset; niece of Henry VIII; daughter of the Duke of Suffolk and the
King’s sister, Mary Tudor; mother of Lady Jane Grey; religious
reformer. (
c.
1519–1559)
S
TEPHEN
 G
ARDINER
 
Bishop of Winchester; Privy Council member to Henry VIII;
fervent Catholic; attempted, with Wriothesley, to bring down Katherine Parr,
resulting in his own temporary political demise.
(
c.
1493–1555)
H
ENRY VIII
 
King of England; ascended the throne in 1509. (1491–1547)
H
ERTFORD
 
Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford; later Duke of Somerset and
Lord Protector of England; oldest uncle of Prince Edward, later Edward VI;
brother of Thomas and Jane Seymour; brother-in-law of Henry VIII; husband of
Anne Stanhope; religious reformer; executed for treason.
(
c.
1506–1552)
H
UICKE
 
Dr Robert Huicke; physician to Henry VIII and Katherine Parr;
witnessed Katherine Parr’s will. (Died
c.
1581)
J
ANE
 G
REY
 
Lady Jane Grey; daughter of Frances Brandon and the Marquess of Dorset; ward
of Thomas Seymour; later Queen of England for under two weeks; executed,
aged about seventeen, by Mary Tudor; a fervent religious reformer.
(1536/7–1554)
J
ANE
 S
EYMOUR
 
Third wife of Henry VIII; mother of Prince Edward, later
Edward VI; died in childbed; Henry chose to be buried with her as the only
wife that had given him a son. (
c.
1508–1537)
J
ANE
THE
 F
OOL
 
A fool named Jane is recorded in Privy Purse accounts during the reigns for
Henry, Mary and Elizabeth; almost nothing is known of her except she may
have had the surname Beddes or Bede. (Dates not known)
K
ATHERINE
 P
ARR
 
Sixth wife of Henry VIII; sister of William Parr and Anne
Herbert; mother of Mary Seymour; died in childbed; religious reformer.
(
c.
1512–1548)
L
ATYMER
 
John Neville, Lord Latymer; second husband of Katherine Parr; father of Meg
Neville; controversially and perhaps reluctantly involved in the Catholic
uprising the Pilgrimage of Grace; pardoned by Henry VIII. (1493–1543)
L
IZZIE
 T
YRWHITT
 
Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhitt; gentlewoman of the privy chamber to
Katherine Parr and attended her deathbed. (Died
c.
1587)
M
ARGARET
 D
OUGLAS
 
Countess of Lennox; niece of Henry VIII; daughter of Margaret Tudor, Queen
of Scotland, and her second husband, Archibald Douglas; half-sister of James
V of Scotland and aunt of Mary Queen of Scots; imprisoned for her liaison
with Thomas Howard, half-brother of the Duke of Norfolk, and caused scandal
with an affair with Charles Howard, Catherine Howard’s brother;
married the Earl of Lennox, second in line to the Scottish throne, a
political coup and figurative foothold in Scotland for Henry VIII.
(1515–1578)

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