Catherine Howard

Cousin of Anne Boleyn and lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves; married Henry VIII almost immediately after the annulment of his fourth marriage, at perhaps seventeen to his forty-nine. Her brief queenship ended when evidence emerged of pre-marital affairs concealed from the king and of meetings during her marriage with Thomas Culpeper. Tried and condemned by act of attainder rather than judicial process, she was beheaded at the Tower at nineteen.