Gents Mag 1855 part 2 p.455

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1855 part 2 p.455
Katherine Parr   biography
	Biography, Katherine Parr ... KATHARINE PARR was the wife of many husbands. She was a learned young lady, with some sprinkling of royal blood in her; and was wooed by Lord Scrope, married to Lord Borough, and became a widow before she had completed her fifteenth year. Neville lord Latimer admired her, her understanding, and her needlework, and forthwith espoused her, to speedily leave her again a widow. The handsome Sir Thomas Seymour, most gallant of admirals, next offered himself for the acceptance of this accomplished young lady, but his pretensions were set aside by the irresistible courtship of a king who had divorced two wives, beheaded two more, and killed a fifth by his cruelty. She had no choice, but to take thankfully the terrible gift imposed upon her; and Katharine became the last and the luckiest, and perhaps the wisest of the wives of Henry. She was a tender mother to his children, an incomparable nurse to himself, and was so esteemed by him that she only nearly lost her head. She had touched upon religious questions, and probably, had the king not recollected that it would be difficult for him to find her match at rubbing in lotion, all her submissiveness would not have saved her from the scaffold. What a happy woman she must have been when she again became a widow, and her old lover, Seymour, once more came with the offer of his hand. Katharine accepted it because she thought that
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