Catherine Parr did more than simply outlive her notorious husband. She played a role in shaping the future of the kingdom—and the reigns of its future queens.
marriage to him as a God-given duty, one that “made me renounce utterly mine own will,” as she wrote years later. They married on July 12, 1543.historian Jane Dunn, “Catherine Parr had sacrificed her heart for the sake of duty.”Catherine made the most of her sacrifice and embraced her royal role. Her tenure as queen consort exemplified what historian Sarah GristwoodWhen Henry spent three months in France in 1544, he gave Catherine the keys to the kingdom.
Mary was his eldest, and his marriage to her mother Catherine of Aragon had soured so dramatically that he severed England’s ties to the Catholic Church to divorce her. Henry’s second child was Elizabeth, whom he had labeled illegitimate in 1536 after he executed her mother, his second wife Anne Boleyn.
However, Catherine’s devotion to Protestantism earned her critics at court. The English Reformation was still in full swing, and many nobles rejected what they considered to be zealous Protestantism. They complained Catherine claimed too much influence over the king. Some even called her a heretic. Elizabeth was not the only newcomer there. Years of marriage to Henry had not quieted Catherine’s feelings for Thomas Seymour, her old flame. And so only four months into her widowhood, she married Seymour, an act that shocked the court.
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