Catherine Howard - Portrayal in Media - in Fiction

In Fiction

  • Catherine's story is fictionalized in the young adult novel The King's Rose by Alisa M. Libby.
  • Catherine's story is fictionalized in the novel Murder Most Royal and Rose Without a Thorn by Jean Plaidy.
  • Catherine is a main character in the book The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory.
  • Catherine's story, along with that of Anne Boleyn, is told from the viewpoint of Lady Rochford in the novel Vengeance Is Mine by Brandy Purdy.
  • Catherine is a character in Sovereign by C. J. Sansom (the third novel in the Matthew Shardlake series).
  • A highly fictionalized version of a devoutly Catholic, learned and serious Katharine who wants to return Henry to the Old Faith is told in the trilogy The Fifth Queen by Ford Madox Ford.
  • Catherine's life was told in the new play commissioned by Shakespeare's The Rose (theatre)., Bankside in 'Rose without A Thorn' in 2008 written by Harry Denford.
  • Catherine's two years at court prior to her death are retold from her point of view in the fictional novel "The Queen's Mistake" by Diane Haeger.
  • Catherine's time as Queen is fictionalised from the view of Lady Rochford in the novel The Tudor Wife by Emily Purdy.

Appeared in the 2010 novel "Secrets of the Tudor Court" by D.L. Bogdan

  • In Gilt, a 2012 young adult novel by Katherine Longshore, Catherine's story is shown side by side with her fictional best friend Kitty Tylney.The Confessions of Katherine Howard.

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