The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-17

y, (, j sl)NE AZ 1906.
sied the unoffending creature to the altar,
though he subsequently wreaked ven-
sgennceb on the politicians who had duped
Min Into the wedding by removing their
heads.
Z It did not take our wa,sward, yet Iowa
be, Hal many months to get rid OF
cor Anne. He married her III 1910 dld
4"Srepudlated her the same year. They
hardly do such things more rapidly in
this day. Ammo was only too glad to
get OFF with her head, and clieerfullys
iwds well.provided for. She saw her ex.,
husband several limos after their separa-
ton, and survived him ten years. dying
at the age OF forty-one. She was o.
good woman; l,er only sin was her ugll-
ness. es .ss 5 81
It has been ungallantly hinted-and on
pretty good authorty--thht our hero's
fifth consort, dainty little Katharine How
ard, could not even sign , her owt, name.
JlAt any rate, she was mighty weak on
5penmanship This second Kate was q
first cousin OF 4Anno Boleyn, ana her fate
was tragic In the extreme. she first
became acquainted With Henry when
serving as maid Of honor to Anne OF
Clcves, nor did she wed her husband
or allow many flatter!ng attentions until
poor Anne had been duly divorced.
Katharine Howard queened 1t hut n
short time. She was married In 1910 and
ibeheadcd February 10, 1912, at the age OF
twenty. Another court-schndnl was In
$volved In the story OF he fall. IN the
case, however, the Inflated Katharine's
faults long ante-dated her marriage, but
the memory of them would not down..
Relatives, tattling friends and malicious
3kinswoman Informed the King of 1<ath-
nrine's misguided girlhood. and the end
came oil too quickly.
In this case, too, several supposed ''co-
respondents" died on the scaftold. Henry
undoubtedly loved Katharine Howard.
and the relations made to him brought
tears to his eyes, but he had her head
chopped or, Just the same
And how the two-ply widow, katharine
E'nrr. Of Kendall. has her inning with
our amorous Henry, becoming his bride
July u, 1543 when she had reached the
age OF thirty. At fifteen she had been
i the widow OF Lord Borough, who left
( her rich and chidlass. and at twenty
three she became for a second time n
widow and richer than before by tho
death OF Lord Latlmer.
This sixth Mrs. Tudor was n thorough
" accomplished, we'll bred. proper lady,
as Is evidenced by the way she managed
5'Iial and ultimately succeeded in bury
Ing him, which was one OF the nobiost
things any person ever aid for humanity.
y All the accomplishments OF the day
We're hers. She wrote beautiful mann-
script and was skilled in composition,
both in Greek and Latin. Better STIR.
she was eminently respectable, and seenl-
#ingly made Henry very happy. Probably
she herself even managed 10 fnd life
Sendurnble with her bloody companion
which feat shows vast ingenuity.
Henry. our king of husbands, as we'll us
of England, kindly died in 1854 |, thus max.
Ing his third Kate a three-ply widow,
which condition she quickly sought "a
remedy by taking a fourth husband,
Lord Seymour. high admiral of England
She died september 30. l5Is, nreiret.cI
by her husband, who aspired to the hand
of Henry's daughter, Elizabeth.
s8s&s
Upon re-reading the foregoing, see
that / have mixed rhetorical julep wan
out putting In the whiskey. In otnLr,
Words, Henry has been alluded to In the
Introductory paragraphs as the meanest5
white man that ever lived. whereas the
things said about him in this column a1e
positively eudogistic, compared with some
of the other things history recites.
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hammer for additional knockings.
In the days before our hero became.
allenated from the church at Rome By
I lis sc,rvy tricks, he wrote book. in be-
half of Catholicism. which was entitled
E"De Septem Sacramento. This 30 plcns-
ed the Vatican authorities that theatit.s,
Defender of5the Fdith." was conferi pc..i
Bcn him. The work. however. irritat,.
Martin Luther to such an extent that
he saw ii to designate the doughty Henry
as "a fool and an ASA blasDhemer and
q lar dnd all these things he was and
n heap more a thousand times worse. AN
As for his wives, three of them were
noble women Of unimpcachable character
H--Katharine of Aragon, Anne OF Clevts
and Katharine Parr. while the other
three-well, they got their punishment In
having our Hal for husband, to say
lQthing OF the axe and the sword.
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