Katherine Howard Emily Blunt Daughter of Lord Edmund Howard, a younger brother of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and first cousin to Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard was well acquainted with nobility. She served as a lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves in Henry VIII's court, where she caught the King's attention. Encouraged by her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, who hoped to increase his own influence over the monarch and discredit his enemy, Thomas Cromwell, Katherine responded to the King's attentions. Sixteen days after he was free of Anne, Henry took his fifth wife, Katherine Howard, on July 28, 1540. Henry lavished gifts on his young wife, thirty years his junior, calling her his 'rose without a thorn' and the 'very jewel of womanhood.' Less than a year into the marriage, however, rumors of Katherine's infidelity began to circulate. In November 1541, Archbishop Cranmer informed Henry of Katherine's affairs with various young men. Henry did not believe the accusations, but further investigations proved only more damning. Katherine was executed on the Tower Green on February 13, 1542 and laid to rest near her cousin Anne Boleyn in the Chapel of St. Peter of Vincula at the Tower of London. Actress Emily Blunt appeared as Isolda in the Masterpiece Theatre production of Warrior Queen (2003) and as Lucy Markham in Foyle's War (2002).