Katheryn Howard: Henry's Thorny Rose (Part four) - Page 3
© Lyndal White
This writer wonders how Henry would have felt about these Howard women at the end of his life. One would imagine he would have rued the day these charming cousins came to Court and destroyed him twice, firstly as a middle aged man and then a man caught in the web of old age. At the end of his life he asked, 'Was ever a man so tortured?' I wonder did he refer to this family when he spoke those words.
However Henry allowed himself the luxury of an old age which he denied to these two queens although after Katheryn's death it was a wretched decline. He died married but alone, Catherine Parr sensible enough kept her head down, avoiding all misdemeanors and dreaming of another future. Henry was very probably unloved by the people who surrounded him and they were all anxious for a new era. Edward, although only a boy, held the promise of a spring clean of the Palace.
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