Catherine Howard – H*orny Teenager
Catherine’s mother died while she was quite young. She was sent to live with her step-grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk Agnes Howard. The Dowager Duchess was seemingly unaware that Catherine and her friends entertained men in their dormitory unchaperoned. Catherine reportedly had affairs with her (much older) music teacher Henry Manox and nobleman Francis Dereham.
She and Dereham called each other as “husband” and “wife” and consummated this pre-engagement. The Dowager Duchess found out and sent Dereham away. In Anne of Cleves’ service, Catherine attracted the much older and declining Henry, to the delight of her Boleyn relatives. But Henry’s attention wasn’t fulfilling for Catherine. And sooner rather than later, her affair with Thomas Culpeper would be her undoing.
