Katherine Parr

Katherine (also Catherine) Parr (1512–48) was the sixth and last wife of the Tudor king Henry VIII and has gone down in history as the wife who 'survived'. Katherine was twice-widowed when she married Henry in 1543, and after the king's death in January 1547 she married Thomas Seymour. In 1544 Katherine became the first queen of England to be published when copies of her prayers and reflections on the Psalms were produced by the king's printers. Katherine was sympathetic towards Protestant reformers and in the summer of 1546 was almost executed for her faith. In 1546 she began a personal testimony, The Lamentation of a Sinner, which was published after Henry's death in 1547. On 30 August 1548 Katherine gave birth to a daughter named Mary with her fourth husband, Thomas Seymour, but Katherine died a few days later of puerperal fever