Margaret Howard, Duchess of Norfolk was the sole surviving child of Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, and Lady Elizabeth Grey, herself the daughter of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, and his wife Margaret Wotton, therefore Margaret was a niece of Henry Grey, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and first cousin of Lady Jane Grey.

Lord William Howard was an English nobleman and antiquary, sometimes known as "Belted Will" or "Bauld (bold) Will".