The Life of Catherine Howard | Henry VIII's Youngest Queen Who Risked Everything | History for Sleep

She was barely eighteen when she was made Queen of England, a girl who had grown up half-forgotten in a crowded noble household, used by her ambitious family and given no chance to refuse the destiny they chose for her. This is the quiet and often misunderstood story of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry the Eighth. In this long and gentle telling, we follow Catherine from her neglected childhood in the vast Sussex household of the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, through the dangerous world of the Tudor court, and into the brief and fragile reign that ended on the scaffold in 1542. Along the way, we learn about the Howard family, one of the mightiest dynasties in England, and the cold ambitions of her uncle the Duke of Norfolk, who placed her in the king's path just as he had done with Anne Boleyn a decade before. A calm, slow exploration of Tudor England, royal court life, and the forgotten girls who lived at the centre of one of history's most famous dynasties.