5 – Catherine Howard
A noblewoman from London, 16-year-old Catherine Howard married the 49-year-old king just three weeks after his divorce to Anne of Cleves, making her his fifth wife. Howard was actually a first cousin to Anne Boleyn but worked for Anne of Cleves and lived in her household when she caught the king’s eye. Howard is known to have been a high-spirited young woman with a colorful sexual past.