The Wife Who Talked Her Way Off The Block

BETRAYAL IN THE BEDCHAMBER. 🥀 Catherine Parr was Henry VIII’s sixth wife, but she was inches away from the executioner’s block. Her enemies planted a warrant for her arrest under her door. She read her own death sentence while the King sat in the next room. Instead of screaming, she went to him. She played the part of the “weak woman,” telling Henry she only argued about religion to learn from his “superior” mind. When the guards arrived to drag her to the Tower, Henry turned on them in a rage. He had forgotten he signed her death warrant. She was the only wife to outlive the monster.

Interesting Fact Catherine was so stressed after finding the warrant that she suffered a massive panic attack; the King actually came to her bedside, which gave her the opening to manipulate him into sparing her life.

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