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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
A biography of Catherine Howard follows the fifth wife of Henry VIII from a neglected girlhood to the scaffold. Russell writes against the easy story of a foolish teenager and toward the court that used her.
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