Final Days of Henry VIII

Final Days of Henry VIII

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Henry VIII called her his 'rose without a thorn', but the teenage Catherine Howard was to fall out of favour less than 18 months after becoming Queen of England.


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Wife-Swapping Magician of the Tudor Court
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