Parr Katharine

Parr, Katharine, Queen-Consort of Henry VIII., was born in 1512, the daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, of Kendal. She was married when quite a girl to a certain Edward Borough, after whose death she became the wife of John, Lord Latimer. After his death she had made up her mind to take as her third husband Sir Thomas Seymour (brother of Queen Jane), but was constrained, much against her will, to marry Henry VIII. in 1543. She interceded successfully with him on behalf of his daughters, and favoured (in a discreet manner) the reformed opinions. She was an accomplished classical scholar, and wrote a work called 'The Lamentation or Complaint of a Sinner. Not long after the king's death, she married her old suitor, Seymour, but died in 1548, at the age of thirty-six.