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Katherine Howard, Lady Aubigny died 1650

“My hands shook as I examined letters written to Katherine in code by King Charles I, when he was imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle ”

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Katherine Howard, Lady Aubigny was a noblewoman and royalist during the Civil War. In 1638 she married her first husband, George Stewart, 9th Seigneur

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