Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr (64 page)

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  Portrait of a Lady, said to be Katherine Parr, 16th Century English School © Lambeth Palace, London / Bridgeman Art Library.

The Great Hall at Gainsborough Old Hall, Lincolnshire © John Bethell / Bridgeman Art Library

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  William Parr by Hans Holbein © Royal Library, Windsor / akg-images. St Mary’s Chapel, Snape © Mike Kipling Photography / Alamy. Snape Castle © Mike Kipling Photography / Alamy.

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  Cuthbert Tunstall courtesy of Mr John Chichester-Constable.

Katherine Parr’s bedchamber at Sudeley © Country Life / Bridgeman Art Library.

The Chapel at Sudeley © Country Life / Bridgeman Art Library.

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  Charles V by Titian, 1533 © Prado, Madrid / Giraudon / Bridgeman Art Library.

The Martyrdom of Anne Askew from Acts and Monuments
by John Foxe, 1563, woodcut © Private Collection / Bridgeman Art Library.

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  Thomas Howard by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1539 © Castle Howard / Bridgeman Art Library.

Stephen Gardiner, 16th Century English School © Corpus Christi College, Oxford / Bridgeman Art Library.

Thomas Wriothesley by Edward Harding, stipple engraving © National Portrait Gallery, London.

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  Katherine Parr, attributed to Master John, circa 1545 © National Portrait Gallery, London.

Katherine Parr’s signature © Mary Evans Picture Library.

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  Katherine Parr, 16th Century English School © National Portrait Gallery / Roger-Viollet, Paris / Bridgeman Art Library.

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  The Coat of Arms of Katherine Parr at Snowshill Manor © NTPL / Stuart Cox.

Henry VIII, Circle of Hans Holbein the Younger, courtesy of Sotheby’s Picture Library.

Henry VIII, 16th Century English School © Society of Antiquities, London / Bridgeman Art Library.

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  Edward VI, Studio of William Scrots, 16th Century, courtesy of Sotheby’s Picture Library.

Edward VI, by Guillim Stretes, 16th Century © Musée du Louvre, Paris / akg-images.

Lady Jane Grey by unknown artist © National Portrait Gallery, London.

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  Mary Tudor at the age of twenty-eight by Master John, 1544 © National Portrait Gallery / Bridgeman Art Library.

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  Elizabeth I when Princess, attributed to William Scrots, circa 1546, The Royal Collection © 2009, Her Majesty Queen Elzabeth II.

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  Mary Tudor, Studio of Antonio Moro, 16th Century © Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA / Bridgeman Art Library.

Signature of Queen Elizabeth I © akg-images.

Queen Elizabeth I in coronation robes, 16th Century English School, circa 1559–1600 © National Portrait Gallery / Bridgeman Art Library.

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  Cover of Elizabeth’s translation of
The Mirror of the Sinful Soul
(MS.Cherry 36) © Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Cover of Elizabeth’s translation of
Prayers or Meditations
(Royall MS 7.D.x) © British Library, London.

Mary Howard, Duchess of Richmond, by Holbein, Royal Library, Windsor, The Royal Collection © 2009, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

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  Edward Seymour by Hans Holbein the Younger, 16th Century © The Trustees of the Weston Park Foundation, UK / Bridgeman Art Library.

Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset, English, 16th Century © National Gallery of Ireland.

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  Oval portrait of an unknown man (thought to be Thomas Seymour), 1543, attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1497–1543. Formerly attributed to Luke Horenbout, 1490/95–1544. Gouache on thin card, edge trimmed in gold (4.6cm). Courtesy Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1974.2.58).

Thomas Seymour, 16th Century English School © National Portrait Gallery / Bridgeman Art Library.

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  Katherine Parr’s tomb at Sudeley and inscription on Katherine Parr’s coffin, both reproduced by kind permission of Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire.

Katherine Brandon by Francesco Bartolozzi, after Hans Holbein the Younger, stipple engraving © National Portrait Gallery, London.

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This striking portrait in Lambeth Palace, the earliest of Katherine, conveys her intelligence and fortitude.

The Great Hall at Gainsborough Old Hall, where Katherine lived during her first marriage to Edward Borough.

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Katherine’s much-loved younger brother, William Parr, in the late 1530s.

St Mary’s Chapel at Snape Castle is one of the few surviving examples of a pre-Reformation private chapel in England. The Latimer family worshipped here.

Snape Castle, Bedale, Yorkshire. Katherine’s home during her marriage to Lord Latimer and where she was held hostage during the Pilgrimage of Grace.

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Cuthbert Tunstall, diplomat and churchman, and kinsman to Katherine’s father. He was an important constant in Katherine’s life.