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KATHERINE PARR THE ‘RADICAL’ ONE

KATHERINE’S EARLY LIFE

atherine Parr had already been married and widowed twice before becoming Henry’s sixth and final wife. At 17, she married Sir Edward Burgh, heir to baronetcy of Burgh, but he died four years later. In 1534, Parr married John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, who was almost twice

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