Before she was queen, Catherine Howard was a teenage girl growing up in a chaotic noble household with very little supervision and a lot at stake.

In this episode, we dig into her uncertain birth year, messy family dynamics, and life in the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk’s household where reputations were fragile and privacy barely existed. We unpack her early relationship with Henry Mannox, the power imbalance involved, and why Catherine’s own words challenge the long standing myth that she was reckless or foolish.

Catherine’s story does not begin with a crown. It begins with a girl trying to survive in a world that was never designed to protect her.

Listen as Sarah makes her case for her favorite of Henry VIII’s queens and argues that history might have judged her far too harshly.

Because the truth about Catherine Howard is far more complicated than it seems.

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