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The Howard family is one of the leading dynasties of the English aristocracy. The head of the senior branch of the family holds the title of Duke of Norfolk and is the premier duke of England. The Howards consolidated their power with an awesome web of schemes and conspiracies but even they could not always hold their enemies at bay.This was a family whose history is marked by treason, beheadings and incarceration - a dynasty whose pride and ambition secured only their downfall.
The Tudor court was a snake pit of competing factions, and none was more Machiavellian than the Howard family. After John, first Duke of Norfolk, was killed fighting for Richard III at Bosworth, his son made his way into the favour of the victorious Henry VII, regaining his ancestral lands. Steeped
