Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel

Alethea Howard, 13th Baroness Furnivall, Countess of Arundel (1585 – 3 June [O.S. 24 May] 1654),née Lady Alethea Talbot (pronounced "Al-ee-thia"), was the wife of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel. She was the youngest daughter of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury and his wife Mary Cavendish; and the sister of two other countesses: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent.

Lady Alethea Talbot was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1585. Her first name Alethea is the Greek noun αλήθεια (pronounced "al-ee-thia"), meaning "truth". In September, 1606, she married Thomas Howard, and they had four children; their first son died as a youth aged 17:

Along with her sister Elizabeth and cousin Arbella Stuart, she performed in The Masque of Queens, written to Royal order by Ben Jonson, with costumes by Inigo Jones. The masque was originally planned to celebrate Christmas 1608 but was eventually performed at court on 2 February 1609.

Lady Arundel wished to join her husband abroad, but was dissuaded from doing so. Alethea and her husband accompanied the Elector Palatine Frederick V and his bride Princess Elizabeth Stuart as far as Heidelberg on their marriage in 1613.

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