Royal survivor giving what is expected to an audience (4)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

sound like PAR; Catherine Parr was Henry VIII’s last wife, surviving him by a year and a bit. Claims to fame: with four husbands, she is the most-married English queen; she was the first woman to publish an original work under her own name, in English, in England.