Catherine Parr
Sixth wife of Henry VIII; final queen consort of the House of Tudor
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She survived Henry VIII — the only one of his six wives to outlive him and the most-married queen England ever had. But she was also the first woman in the country to publish a book in English under her own name, and for nine months she ran the kingdom while the king waged war in France.
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Born around July 1512, Catherine Parr became Henry VIII's sixth wife on 12 July 1543, when she was already twice-widowed. She forged close bonds with his children — Mary, Elizabeth, Edward — tutoring the younger two herself and persuading Henry to restore his daughters to the line of succession in 1543. From July to September 1544 he named her regent while he campaigned in France, though he left her no role in his will. Her Protestant leanings nearly cost her: in spring 1546 a warrant for her arrest was drawn up by Catholic officials hoping to destroy her, but she and Henry reconciled. She pub…
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