Henry VIII's Imprisoned Women: The Women of the Tower by Neha Roy

Author:Neha Roy
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Katheryn Howard

Sunday, 12 February 1542, Tower of London

The guards at the Tower stood flummoxed at the morbidly strange request by the prisoner. Scheduled to be beheaded the next day, young Katheryn Howard, former Queen of England, had asked for the execution block to be brought to her cell so that she could ‘practise’ laying her head upon it. She wanted to appear dignified on the scaffold, she said to her guards, and not lose her nerve at the final moment.

This was perhaps not out of character for a girl who, though still a teenager, had experienced a tumultuous and tragic life. Famously touted as ‘the rose without a thorn’ by her husband, the ageing King Henry VIII, Katheryn’s reign as the Queen of England was a brief one, second only in brevity to her predecessor and former mistress, Anne of Cleves.

A vivacious personality who was but a mere pawn in the cut-throat world of the Tudor court, Katheryn was thrust mercilessly into the life of King Henry VIII – who was well into his dotage – and just as easily disposed of when her seemingly scandalous past came to light. But was she really guilty of the crimes she was alleged to have committed? Or was she just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and in the company of the wrong people?

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