Katherine Howard downfall and execution

Catherine was stripped of her title as queen on November 23 and imprisoned in Syon House, Middlesex, through the winter of 1541. Culpeper and Dereham were executed at Tyburn on December 10, 1541 — the former beheaded, the latter hanged, drawn and quartered — for treasonous conduct.] As was customary, their heads were placed atop London Bridge. Catherine's relatives were also detained in the Tower, except her uncle Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, who had sufficiently detached himself from the scandal. All of the Howard prisoners were tried, found guilty of concealing treason, and sentenced to life imprisonment and forfeiture of goods. In time, however, they were released with their goods restored.
Catherine herself remained in suspension until Parliament passed a bill of attainder, on 21 January 1542, that made the intent to commit treason punishable by death. This solved the matter of Catherine's supposed precontract and made her unequivocally guilty, as adultery by a queen was de facto treason. Catherine was taken to the Tower of London on February 10, 1542. On February 11, Henry signed the bill of attainder into law, and Catherine's execution was scheduled for 7 a.m. on February 13.
The night before her execution, Catherine is said to have spent many hours practising how to lay her head upon the block. She died with relative composure but looked pale and terrified, and she required assistance to climb the scaffold. She made a speech describing her punishment as "worthy and just" and asked for mercy for her family and prayers for her soul. According to popular folklore, her last words were, "I die a Queen, but I would rather have died the wife of Culpeper." However, this final declaration of love did not occur; its invention was an attempt to give Catherine's story some mark of distinction.She was beheaded with one stroke, and her body was buried in an unmarked grave in the nearby chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, where the body of her cousin, Anne Boleyn, also lay. Henry did not attend.
Catherine's body was one of those identified during restorations of the chapel during the reign of Queen Victoria, and she is commemorated on a plaque on the west wall dedicated to all those who died in the Tower.
Francis I of France wrote a letter to Henry upon news of Catherine's death, regretting the "lewd and naughty behaviour of the Queen" and advising him that "The lightness of women cannot bend the honour of men". When Sir William Paget informed Francis of Catherine's misconduct, he exclaimed "She hath done wondrous naughty!"

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[BRUTUALTRUTH]

Advice to all you women: never marry a fatty!

[madisonelectronic]

Too bad one of these women could not manage to shove a knife into Henrys' eye in the middle of the night.

[PennyCartwright]

@claypole47 And much as I love Beethoven, he doesn't fit Tudor England at all.

[Karolinevillarreal]

Catherine was a young queen.

[tulipchic34]

Henry was a woman hating arsehole.

[claypole47]

The overdubbed music ruins this clip. It jars with the action and drowns out the wonderful original music score.

[mphello]

I fully support bombing the UK royalty now. Exterminate them. Colossal waste of tax dollars. If they are exterminated, then this sort of atrocity can't happen again.

And, don't start in with that irony shit: death by a quick bomb, like in Oslo, Norway, this week, or airplane crash like 911, or gun shootout like Columbine, is an infinitely FAIRER and JUST than a long-protracted trial and execution over a trivial offense of infidelity.

[mphello]

WHY can't we execute PRESIDENTS and PRIME MINISTERS (USA, UK, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Peru, etc.) today the way the world would execute kings and queens of long ago?

[azuz6778]

what movie is this?

[Lordseydious]

Traitors!!!

[chocolatefountain95]

Henry cheated on his wives and got away with it

Katherine sleeps with ONE person while she's queen because he bears her proper love, not a mid life crisis and she gets executed for it.

I think it was mainly Derham's fault, since he had to come back and blackmail her into making him her secretary. Then he got drunk and said he'd gone to bed with the queen. The investigation starts and what do you know? Four people are taken to the scaffold. Derham, Katherine, Jane and Culpepper. x:(

[avallonmist]

It was Henry who should have been beheaded...in more ways than one!!!