Katherine Howard

Considering Henry spared Ann of Cleves, it makes him all the more heartless that he cd ignore the pleas of this innocent young woman. It was quite within his power to save her. The trouble was he cd do what he liked and execute anyone who dared to criticise. What's the point of being King (thinks Henry) if you can't break the rules as you please?

During WW11 my father was part of the Hampton Court Guard. One night he heard running and the screaming of a young girl in the Long Gallery. He charged up the gallery to apprehend the intruder. All the time he heard  someone pounding on a door and crying. As he turned a corner the screaming abruptly stopped. He called to his fellow guard to stop messing about when something panting and unseen fled past him. He had no belief in the supernatural but never found an explanation for the occurence.

I've read it in many historical fiction novels about Elizabeth.

I don't know if she haunts the tower too, but I would imagine so. That's where she's buried. Plus, it wasn't a straight forward burial after her infamous last words the king ordered her body be covered in Quick Lime, as a last punishment.

What were her last words, and what's quick lime?

she said

"I die today, a queen, but I'd rather be the wife of Culpepper."

It is said to be popular folklore, not true it seems

quicklime as opposed to slow lime...