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One of the worst!

Recently, British historian Alec Ryrie has described Katherine Willoughby as an ‘evangelical firebrand’ and perhaps ‘the most aggressive of the reformers’ within the royal circle around Henry VIII.

History Professor Michael Haykin
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Katherine Willoughby

A hostile Spanish Roman Catholic source described her as ‘one of the worst heretics in England’.