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Elizabeth Howard Duchess of Norfolk was an English aristocrat born around 1497 as the eldest daughter of Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham. Her family tree reached deep into the royal house of York through her paternal grandmother Lady Catherine Woodville.
Before the 8th of January 1513 fifteen-year-old Lady Elizabeth married Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey who was already in his late thirties and the widower of Anne daughter of King Edward IV. They had five children together and appeared bonded by mutual love as late as 1524 when he became Duke of Norfolk.
In 1527 Norfolk took a mistress named Bess Holland who lived openly at Kenninghall which led to a separation on the 23rd of March 1534 when Norfolk forced it upon her. He locked her in a chamber taking away all her jewels and apparel sending her to Redbourn in Hertfordshire where she received only £200 annually.
Late in 1530 it was noted that the Duchess secretly conveyed letters to Queen Catherine from Italy concealed inside oranges passed to the Imperial ambassador Eustace Chapuys. In 1531 she was exiled from court at Anne Boleyn's request for declaring loyalty to Catherine too freely and refused to attend Anne's coronation ceremony on the 1st of June 1533.
Elizabeth Howard died the 30th of November 1558 at Lambeth where she was buried in the Howard chapel within the Church of St Mary-at-Lambeth. Her brother wrote a brief but heartfelt epitaph describing her as both far and near a mother sister and friend most dear.