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Catherine Howard

Categories: Execution, Royalty, Seriously Famous

As lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves Catherine attracted Henry's ever-roving eye. Anne was dumped (via the annulment method) and the obese, 49-year old Henry married the 20-year old Catherine. She failed to find him a satisfactory lover and began an affair with Thomas Culpeper, her distant cousin, using her lady in waiting Jane Boleyn as a go-between. Discovery led to execution for all involved. Culpeper was beheaded at Tyburn, Catherine on Tower Green with Jane following close behind.

Her first name is sometimes spelt Katheryn or Katherine.

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Catherine Howard

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Tower of London execution site

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Tower of London execution site - c.1910

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Tower scaffold - 1946

See Anne Boleyn's plaque for when/how this plaque was displayed.

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