10. Katherine and Victor’s Friendship – Katherine and Victor have been friends for a long time. They sought each other’s counsel over the years and each knew the other would give them good advice and a realistic take on the situation, even if it wasn’t what either of them wanted to hear. Over the years, they clashed over business deals and betrayed each other once or twice and more but in the end, they remained friends and respected each other’s business acumen.

9. Katherine/Marge scam – Rex’s former cellmate Clint Radison, found Marge Catrooke in a diner. She was a dead ringer for Katherine. He and his two cohorts then devised a plan to train Marge to act like Katherine then he and his partners kidnapped Katherine and Esther and put Marge in Katherine’s place. After her unusual antics and odd behavior, Rex divorced “Katherine,” who then sold Chancellor Industries, which left Clint able to liquidate Katherine’s assets. But, Katherine’s son Brock figured out the scam, rescued Katherine and Esther. Clint and his cohorts went to jail but Marge was released as an innocent in the whole scam due to Katherine’s intervention and the fact that she and Marge had gotten to know each other. Rex and Katherine soon remarried since his marriage to Jill in Katherine’s absence wasn’t legal since it was Marge NOT Katherine who had signed the divorce papers.

8. Katherine and John’s Friendship – Katherine and John were lifelong friends. They were lovers when they were young and often reminisced about skinny-dipping at a lake together in high school. As adults, they often leaned on each other through hard times and family troubles. In 2006, only six months into his seven-year prison sentence for the murder of Tom Fisher, John was about to be released early due to ill heath when he had a stroke and was rushed to Genoa City Memorial in grave condition. John had signed a DNR order and Gloria, his wife at the time, decided to use her position as his wife to allow him to die. Katherine was by her old friend’s side when he died.

7. Katherine meets Murphy and they fall in love – Katherine and Marge reconnected years later when Katherine was suffering from memory lapses. Marge had become a drunk like Katherine and they got into a car accident on the way to a rehab. Marge was killed and her body was found in the car while Katherine had been thrown from the car. Everyone assumed Marge was Katherine and Genoa City mourned her death. Meanwhile, Marge’s friend, Murphy, found Katherine lying by a creek near the accident. Assuming she was Marge, he took her back to his trailer and nursed her back to health. Katherine tried to be Marge since her memory was fuzzy but slowly returning. In Christmas 2008, Katherine’s memoirs were published. Katherine fell on the ice at Murphy's, hit her head, and when she came to, partial memories began returning. She suddenly declared to Murphy that she was actually Katherine Chancellor. Murphy didn't believe her but found the obituary with a photo that looked like Marge and the story of the accident, which had occurred near where he'd found her. Sad that it meant his friend Marge was probably dead instead, he agreed to accompany Katherine to the mansion. Katherine wanted Murphy to stay with her in the mansion, but he was uncomfortable in such posh surroundings. But, Murphy saw Katherine through many ordeals and they eventually fell in love. Eighty-year-old Katherine married Patrick "Murph" Murphy in the Chancellor garden in a service officiated by her son, Brock.

6. Katherine meets her granddaughter, Mackenzie – After sparring with Jill, yet again Katherine, refusing to succumb to the bottle ran off and got mugged. A homeless girl she knew only as Mac, rescued Katherine, who had no ID and took her to a nearby shelter. They became friends and Mac then entrusted Katherine with a letter from the father she had never met, written to her mother.. It was then that Katherine realized that Mac was her son, Brock’s daughter and her granddaughter.

5. Katherine thinking Jill was her long-lost daughter – In 2003, Jill’s mother, Liz showed up in town to tell Jill she was going to have brain surgery. Knowing she might not survive, Liz admitted to Jill that she was adopted. Liz told Jill that all she knew was her husband Bill had brought Jill home to her, wrapped in a blanket, as a baby. Jill was desperate to know who she really was. After aborted attempts to steal her birth certificate from hospital records, Jill's friend, banker Frederick Hodges, contacted a search agency. They were able to arrange a meeting between Jill and her birth mother, the drunk, down-on-her-luck, Charlotte Ramsey. Liz gave her blessing to the meeting, while Kay was angry at how Jill was so quick to abandon Liz. Jill and Charlotte grew close but John was suspicious that Charlotte was out for Jill’s money. Soon, John realized that he had dated Charlotte's sister Eileen in high school. Then, Katherine revealed how she had once helped Eileen's sister Charlotte get an illegal abortion, from which she had nearly died, which left her unable to have more children. John realized that there was no way then that Charlotte could be Jill's mother. During that time, Katherine had gotten pregnant by Gary's golfing buddy, Arthur Hendricks. To protect Katherine's reputation, Charlotte agreed to take her newborn baby girl to a place to be adopted in exchange for a lot of cash and a promise to disappear. The agency refused to take the child without a name on a birth certificate, so to protect Katherine, Charlotte had used her own name. Charlotte told Katherine the story before John could. Kay had a stroke when she realized that the baby she had given up many years before was her own worst enemy, Jill.

4. Katherine meets Tucker McCall, her long-lost son – After Katherine returned after being presumed dead, a DNA test was conducted to ascertain that she was really Katherine Chancellor but using a strand of Jill’s hair, the test proved that Jill was not a match to her, but when Brock arrived, a blood test proved that he was Katherine's son, which ultimately meant that Jill was not Katherine's daughter after all. Years later, Jill had an affair with a man named Tucker McCall, a wealthy businessman. Tucker then showed up to advise Kay and Neil to buy out a company named "Cell Tron" with Chancellor stock. When the DNA test proved JoJo was not Katherine's daughter, it was discovered that Tucker had set JoJo up as part of his plot to get revenge on Kay because he was her missing child. Another DNA test proved it. Over the years, Tucker and Katherine squabbled and betrayed each other and Katherine even willed him back to life after a car wreck, before he left town, he forgave her for giving him up as a baby, and that he was grateful for the time they had had together, the good and bad. They hugged and overwhelmed she burst into tears after he left.

3. Katherine learning Cane wasn’t Phillip III and that the real Phillip III was alive - Shortly after getting a DNA test that confirmed Jill was her daughter, Katherine began having disturbing nightmares of a baby crying. Katherine was forced to reveal to Jill that she had switched Jill's son Phillip for another baby shortly after his birth, and had given a woman named Violet an expensive ring to secure the deal. Because of her heavy drinking and shame, Katherine had blocked the memory for years. They then hired a PI to find the real Phillip III. Good-hearted yet scheming Amber Moore did her own digging and on the Internet, she found Cane, whose adopted mother was named Violet. He was searching for his mother and arrived in Genoa City from Australia on Amber's lead. A DNA test later proved him to be the real Phillip Chancellor III. Over the years, Jill, Katherine and Cane grew extremely close. Years later, Nina came back to town skeptical upon hearing how they found Cane and that he was really Phillip III. While in town, Nina began work on a screenplay of Katherine’s memoirs. Meanwhile, Cane kept calling his “Uncle Langley” in Australia and said, “Phillip, your wife is going to find out you're still alive.” Eventually, it was revealed that Phillip III had faked his death all those years ago because at 19 he had found himself overwhelmed with responsibilities as a young executive at Chancellor and a new father. As an alcoholic suffering depression, he had attempted suicide by crashing his sports car. When he awoke still alive in the hospital, he managed to pay off a doctor and a policeman to aid in faking his death, then escaped to Australia and began a new life as Langley. Katherine had a stroke when she first saw a very much alive but recovered when she saw he was real. Phillip III returned to Australia and Katherine and Jill feeling Cane was a good man, took him into their family as one of their own.

2. Katherine marries Rex – Jill found a bum on a park bench, cleaned him up, named him Rex Sterling, and paid him to romance Katherine. What Jill didn’t know was that Rex was really Bryan Romalotti, the ex-con father of Danny and Gina. What started out as a trick, ended up a magnificent romance. When Kay found out who he really was and about the ruse, she loved him so much, she didn't care. They were married, and Rex signed a pre-nuptial agreement to show his trustworthiness.

1. Katherine loses Rex to a bullet – Katherine’s maid Esther took out a personal ad, which was answered by con man Norman Peterson. Katherine and Rex dressed up like Esther’s servants in order to impress him. Norman coerced Esther into convincing Katherine to include Esther in her will and then get Esther to marry him. Kay and Rex were suspicious of Norman’s motives, so they arranged a fake wedding. But, unwilling to wait for Katherine to die to be rich, Norman broke into the estate safe, and Rex caught him. Startled, Norman shot and killed Rex, leaving Katherine devastated. Norman was arrested for murder, and Esther was forgiven and again named in Katherine's will. Katherine was never quite the same after Rex’s death.