falconqueen:✧ The Countess [Margaret Pole] was sent a furred nightgown, a kirtle of worsted, a furre

falconqueen:✧ The Countess [Margaret Pole] was sent a furred nightgown, a kirtle of worsted, a furred petticoat, a satin-lined nightgown, a bonnet and frontlet, four pairs of hose, four pairs of shoes and a pair of slippers. …One would hope that Katherine’s gifts provided her with at least some comfort. […] Her four recorded acts of intercession demonstrate Katherine’s desire to take her position as queen and its accompanying responsibilities seriously. Her desire to grant prisoners pardons and her bequests of jewellry upon her relatives and ladies suggest a kind and warm young woman. [Conor Byrne, Katherine Howard: A New History]✦ Katherine continued to show her preference for her cousin Anne Boleyn’s child…who was now seven years old. When she first dined in public, she gave Elizabeth the privileged seat opposite her. To young Elizabeth, this must have been a great moment and she was to remember Katherine’s kindness. [Joanna Denny, Katherine Howard: A Tudor Conspiracy]✧ Catherine had shown herself to be a model consort: gracious, forgiving, and willing to let bygones be bygones. She also displayed leadership, resourcefulness and independence. […] She was also warm, loving and good-natured. Catherine, in short, had begun rather well. She had a good heart, and a less bad head than most of her chroniclers have assumed. [David Starkey, Six Wives]✦ Katherine had a kindness of heart and a lack of malice that prevented her from remaining angry at anyone for very long, and was generous and caring towards those less fortunate than herself.Throughout the summer progress…she had carried out her royal duties impeccably. Her poise and dignity marked the progress as the highlight of her reign so far. Katherine’s past performance held the promise of a happy and successful future; in short, Katherine possessed all the qualities of a fine queen consort.The evidence she left behind – her eagerness to show patronage, her intercession on behalf of felons, her willingness to fulfil her religious obligations and her kindness – suggests that she would have been as good a queen as any of Henry’s wives. [Josephine Wilkinson, Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII’s Fifth Queen]special shoutout to tiny-librarian for browsing her KH collection to help me find a lot of these quotes! -- source link

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