MYSTERY
Queen Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England has always been a controversial lady throughout history. From her short tenure (1540 CE to 1542 CE) at the side of King Henry VIII, her unduly demise, to even her uncanny resemblance on a few works of art, Her Majesty is still mysterious.
Why this website?
The image here on the right is showing a portrait in stained glass. Through inheritance, it came to me. For obvious reason, I did a lot of research about the who, what, where and when. The amount of data became so vast that we crammed it into this website.
Is it Queen Catherine Howard?
Sorry, it did not come with a certificate of origin. So, only left open is the long road of collecting scientific evidence and finding a constant through the maze of deduction, assumption, clues, interpretation and similar soft disciplines.
If you are not interested in the long road, in heading Absolutely you will find a short summary of the core considerations. Looking at all the pieces of the puzzle, I have no choice but to conclude that this stained glass portrait is Henry VIII's fifth wife Catherine Howard by Hans Holbein the Younger. Any contradicting evidence would be more than welcome. But ...(the famous one) I have not seen any yet.
Just for the sake of simplicity, my team and I decided that the stained glass portrait (of Catherine Howard) as shown above, will hereafter be named Katrijn to distinguish it from other images of Catherine Howard or the mentioning of her as a person.
The major elements of the MYSTERY are:
Introduction of Caretaker
Breathtaking Visual Details
Highlights of the XRF Discovery
Master analysis by Dr. Bruce Kaiser
NOTE: About ten years ago, the name of the fifth wife of King Henry the Eight was written as Catherine Howard. Interest in the Tudor dynasty has soared, mostly because of the TV Series “The Tudors” from the BBC. Catherine has now various spellings such as Katherine, Katheryn and Catherin. In Dutch it is Katrijn.
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