Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII. Gareth Russell
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This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2017
Copyright © Gareth Russell 2017
Maps and family trees by Martin Brown
Extract from Die Lorelei from Collected Poems and Drawings by Stevie Smith, London, Faber and Faber Ltd, 2015. Kind permission granted by the publishers.
Cover image shows ‘Portrait of a Young Woman, 1540–45, oil on wood’, Holbein, Hans the Younger (1497–1543). New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Jules Bache Collection, 1949 (49.7.30) © 2016 The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence.
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Source ISBN: 9780008128289
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Version: 2017-12-06
For my grandparents,
Robert and Mary Russell
and
Richard and Iris Mahaffy
An antique story comes to me
And fills me with anxiety,
I wonder why I fear so much
What surely has no modern touch?
… There, on a rock majestical,
A girl with smile equivocal
Painted, young and damned and fair
Sits and combs her yellow hair.
– Stevie Smith, Die Lorelei
CONTENTS
2. Our Fathers in Their Generation
6. The King’s Highness Did Cast a Fantasy
7. The Charms of Catherine Howard
8. The Queen of Britain Will Not Forget
9. All These Ladies and My Whole Kingdom
11. The Return of Francis Dereham
14. For They Will Look Upon You