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on 23 October 1642. After her husband's death Katherine joined Charles' court at Oxford. She was granted permission by the parliamentary forces to enter London in May 1643 to put her husband's affairs in order and used this trip to convey messages from the king to Royalist sympathisers in the city
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in 1648. The pair unsuccessfully attempted to release the king from parliament's captivity during his journey to trial. After the king's execution, the couple fled to the Netherlands where Katherine died in 1650.
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Katherine used a visit to London, ostensibly to deal with her husband's estate, to clandestinely pass messages to Royalists in the city. After her discovery she was imprisoned in the
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as "a woman of a very great wit, and most trusted and conversant in those intrigues which at that time could be best managed and carried on by ladies".
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in the Netherlands. The couple had a daughter, Elizabeth, before Katherine died in 1650. James was made Earl of Newburgh following
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and her parents. George commanded a regiment for the king in the opening stages of the war and was killed at the
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in August 1642 George sided with the king and was killed whilst commanding a cavalry regiment at the
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In Summer 1647 Katherine was granted extensive rights and claims over her husband's estate by the
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portrait of George which had the motto "love is stronger than I am". The couple had a son,
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Following the king's execution Katherine and her husband fled with other royalists to
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of 1660. Katherine's death was a blow to the Royalists and she was described by
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that he put them aside, writing it would cost a whole day to decipher them.
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The Waller Plot failed and Katherine was arrested and imprisoned in the
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Portrait by Van Dyck, circa 1638. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain
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before being released by the intervention of the French ambassador.
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began in February 1648 and later that year Katherine married
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Portrait by Van Dyck, circa 1638
The Hague
United Provinces of the Netherlands
George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny
James Livingston, Viscount Newburgh
Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk
English Civil War
George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny
Charles I
Battle of Edgehill
Tower of London
James Livingston

Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk
Earl of Dunbar
George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny
Charles I
James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond
Van Dyck
Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond
First English Civil War
Battle of Edgehill
Waller plot
Scottish supporters
Tower of London
George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol
House of Lords
James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
Second English Civil War

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