Portrait of a Young Woman, by Hans Holbein the Younger (style), 1540–45 (© 2016 The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence)
Portrait of a Lady, Probably a Member of the Cromwell Family, by Hans Holbein the Younger, c.1535–40 (Toledo Museum of Art/Photography Incorporated, Toledo)
Portrait of a Lady, a miniature by Holbein which may be a portrait of Catherine (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2016)
Framlingham Castle across the Mere (© Adrian S. Pye 2015, licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence)
The former Church of Saint Mary-at-Lambeth (The Garden Museum, Lambeth. Author’s collection)
Catherine’s childhood guardian, Agnes Howard. Detail from Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk; Agnes Howard (née Tilney), Duchess of Norfolk, lithograph by William Henry Kearney, printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (© The National Portrait Gallery, London)
Anne Boleyn, English School, 16th century (Hever Castle, Kent, UK/Bridgeman Images)
Portrait of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, by Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2016)
Portrait of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, English School, 16th Century (Private California Collection)
Unknown woman, known as Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, artist unknown (© The National Portrait Gallery, London)
Portrait of a Woman, probably Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys, by Steven van der Meulen, 1562 (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)
Portrait of Anne of Cleves, by Bartholomæus Bruyn the Elder (by kind permission of the President of St. John’s College, Oxford)
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, studio of Hans Holbein the Younger, c.1537 (© The National Portrait Gallery, London)
Portrait of Henry VIII, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1540 (Palazzo Barberini, Rome/Bridgeman Images)
Portrait of a Lady, formerly identified as Lady Jane Grey, attributed to Lucas Horenbout (Yale Center for British Art, the Paul Mellon Collection)
Eustace Chapuys, Foundateur du college d’Annecy, housed at the Lycée Berthollet, Annecy, France (Reproduced by kind permission of Lauren Mackay)
Sir Thomas Wyatt, after Hans Holbein the Younger, c.1540 (© The National Portrait Gallery, London)
Grimsthorpe Castle and Gardens, Lincolnshire, UK (Dave Porter/Alamy Stock Photo)
The ruins of the Bishop’s Palace, Lincoln (Author’s collection)
The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln (Author’s collection)
Pontefract Castle, by Alexander Keirincx, c.1620–40 (Wakefield Museums and Galleries, West Yorkshire, UK/Bridgeman Images)
Ruins of apartments in the Queen’s Tower at Pontefract Castle (Author’s collection)
James V of Scotland, by Corneille de Lyon, c.1536–37 (Private Collection/Photo © Philip Mould Ltd., London/Bridgeman Images)
Hampton Court Palace, London (Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
Thomas Cranmer, by Gerlach Flicke (© The National Portrait Gallery, London)
Catherine Howard being conveyed to the Tower, 1542, by Henry Marriott Paget (Private Collection/Bridgeman Images)
Traitors’ Gate entrance, Tower of London (Jeff Gilbert/Alamy Stock Photo)