Yours as long as life endures, Katheryn Description: This is the only surviving letter written by Katherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife. The ill advised letter to Thomas Culpepper, a gentleman of the Privy Chamber and other reports of her infidelity led to Katherine's execution in 1542, less than six months after her marriage to Henry. Date: 1541 tudor, queen, incriminating, loveletter, statepapers

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