Katharine O'Shea

Katharine Parnell
Born	Katharine Wood (1846-01-30)30 January 1846 Braintree, Essex, England
Died	5 February 1921(1921-02-05) (aged 75)
Spouses	William O'Shea ​ ​ (m. 1867; div. 1890)​ Charles Stewart Parnell ​ ​ (m. 1891; died 1891)​
Children	5

Katharine Parnell (née Wood; 30 January 1846 – 5 February 1921), known before her second marriage as Katharine O'Shea, and usually called Katie O'Shea by friends and Kitty O'Shea by enemies, was an English woman of aristocratic background whose decade-long secret affair with Charles Stewart Parnell led to a widely publicized divorce in 1890 and his political downfall.