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    &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;FONT size=+1&gt;Letter of Katharine Parr to her husband, King 
Henry VIII&lt;br&gt;July 1544&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;FONT size=-1&gt;&lt;b&gt;Background&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Katharine Parr wed King Henry VIII on 12 July 1543 
  at Hampton Court Palace.&amp;nbsp; Henry was her third husband and not her 
  personal choice.&amp;nbsp; She was in love with Thomas Seymour, the brother of 
  Henry's third wife, Jane; he eventually became her fourth husband just a few 
  months after Henry's death in 1547.&amp;nbsp; Once the marriage to Henry was 
  settled upon, Katharine worked to make it successful.&amp;nbsp; She was, in all 
  respects, admirably suited to the task.&amp;nbsp; She had experience managing 
  temperamental elderly men and nursing their various ailments.&amp;nbsp; She was 
  very intelligent and committed to scholarship, but she also participated fully 
  in the life of Henry's court.&amp;nbsp; She grew as fond of finery as any of his 
  wives and dressed magnificently.&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;FONT size=-1&gt;She and Henry grew 
  close.&amp;nbsp; He refused to allow anyone else to wrap his badly ulcered leg; he 
  also made her Queen-Regent while he attended the siege of Boulogne in 
  1544.&amp;nbsp; This letter was written during that six-week absence and its tone 
  is loving and respectful.&amp;nbsp; In it, Katharine mentions the King of 
  Scotland's widow, Marie de Guise, as well as Henry's three children.&amp;nbsp; In 
  addition to her success as a sixth wife, Katharine was an admirable stepmother 
  who genuinely loved the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth and Prince 
  Edward.&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;p&gt;Although the distance of time and account of days neither is 
    long nor many of your majesty's absence, yet the want of your presence, so 
    much desired and beloved by me, maketh me that I cannot quietly pleasure in 
    anything until I hear from your majesty.&amp;nbsp; The time, therefore, seemeth 
    to me very long, with a great desire to know how your highness hath done 
    since your departing hence, whose prosperity and health I prefer and desire 
    more than mine own.&amp;nbsp; And whereas I know your majesty's absence is never 
    without great need, yet love and affection compel me to desire your 
    presence. &lt;BR&gt;Again, the same zeal and affection force me to be best content 
    with that which is your will and pleasure.&amp;nbsp; Thus love maketh me in all 
    things to set apart mine own convenience and pleasure, and to embrace most 
    joyfully his will and pleasure whom I love.&amp;nbsp; God, the knower of 
    secrets, can judge these words not to be written only with ink, but most 
    truly impressed on the heart.&amp;nbsp; Much more I omit, lest it be thought I 
    go about to praise myself, or crave a thank; which thing to do I mind 
    nothing less, but a plain, simple relation of the love and zeal I bear your 
    majesty, proceeding from the abundance of the heart.&amp;nbsp; Wherein I must 
    confess I desire no commendation, having such just occasion to do the same. 
    &lt;BR&gt;I make like account with your majesty as I do with God for his benefits 
    and gifts heaped upon me daily, acknowledging myself a great debtor to him, 
    not being able to recompense the least of his benefits; in which state I am 
    certain and sure to die, yet I hope in His gracious acceptation of my 
    goodwill.&amp;nbsp; Even such confidence have I in your majesty's gentleness, 
    knowing myself never to have done my duty as were requisite and meet for 
    such a noble prince, at whose hands I have found and received so much love 
    and goodness, that with words I cannot express it.&amp;nbsp; Lest I should be 
    too tedious to your majesty, I finish this my scribbled letter, committing 
    you to the governance of the Lord with long and prosperous life here, and 
    after this life to enjoy the kingdom of his elect. &lt;BR&gt;From Greenwich, by 
    your majesty's humble and obedient servant, &lt;BR&gt;Katharine the 
  Queen.&lt;/p&gt;
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