sometimes popular opinion gets the Tudors, and especially its women, all wrong. Consider that letter Catherine Howard wrote to Thomas Culpeper. Howard, who as a young teenager had been passed ...

Culture Club//Getty Images Portrait of Catherine Howard, the fifth wive of King ... a rumor that one of the Queen’s servants had been arrested at Hampton Court on a suspicion of piracy.

“The Tudors,” heavy ... the twice-widowed Catherine Parr (Joely Richardson) -- because he wants to feel virile again. The flighty, young Katherine Howard gave in to her baser instincts and ...

Catherine looks nowhere near as fun as our beloved Catherine Howard. This newer Catherine ... We were also treated to a Tudor-era Cirque du Soliel-like troupe of acrobats. Bonus!

A long hot summer, thirty years into the reign of King Henry VIII, and well into middle age, Henry takes his fifth wife, Katherine Howard ... soon-to-be widow Catherine Parr.