The Love Letter That Executed Henry VIII’s Teenage Queen
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2024
- One of the most tragic figures of the Tudor Period has to be the fifth wife of King Henry VIII, Catheirne Howard. Historians believed that when she was roughly 19 years old in 1542 she was led to the scaffold inside of the Tower of London and that she was then executed by an axeman who performed the job in one swift strike of his sharp weapon. Catherine was executed for allegedly cheating on Henry VIII with one of his close courtiers Thomas Culpeper, who was actually one of her distant cousins. But Catherine was a woman who today has experienced a slightly reformed reputation as she is considered an abused woman who was taken advantage of by a number of men, including Henry VIII who only wanted one thing from her, to sleep with her. But another shocking part of her story is that Henry VIII ordered her remains to be covered in lime sparingly after her execution. The reason this was done was to ensure that her body was literally wiped off the face of the earth, and the King may have believed by doing this that he was ridding himself of his terrible fifth marriage. But one piece of evidence that sent the young Queen to the execution scaffold was a love letter she wrote to Thomas Culpeper, and this was damningly used to condemn her.
Poor stupid child. She stood no chance in that court. She had no one to protect her. Her own family just used her.
How can this poor girl played with her life in that manner? I mean she knew how notorious Henry VIII was. He already ordered the execution of his second wife Anne Boleyn for the same accusations. So young, Very Sad .
I do not understand her motives either. She does not make sense.
Catherine was used as a pawn by the men in her family and they pushed her to marry that evil beast Henry.
@@vegetariansuniteworldwide8091 Yes, we know, however, why cheat when the penalty was so severe?
@historyloveriii2949 I think that as they mention, she was young and naive. She had also been the a victim of sexual abuse since a very young age. Firstly Henry Mannox, one of her music teachers and then Francis Dereham, who was able to develop a very close relationship with her and they had plans to marry. The problem was that her father was in a dire financial situation and having Catherine marry the King seemed an easy solution to that problem. I think that she also believed that Henry was so besotted by her that there weren't going to be any consequences even if she was caught with Culpepper. And, she was way out of her depth in terms of playing politics with Cranmer and others of his ilk.
@@robynzelickson6164 Yes, I totally understand all of that, but to think of cheating meant treason and death!
Poor Catherine Howard young Un experience ..ended up in a position greater for her ., her wondering eyes towards someone more age appropriate for her was her end. Thanks again for posting 👍❤️ Judy from California.
She was so, so young and vulnerable.😢
The letter seemed more of a fanciful flight of a teenagers imagination, a crush of some sort, not a full blown adulterous liason. Rather weak to murder someone over.
It didn't take much evidence back then.
Cromwell was a real S.O.B.
Yes!
King Henry Vlll is to blame too. His pursuit for sons and his voracious appetites consumed the women foolish enough to satellite his orbit. So tragic.
Poor Catherine tragic ! The portrait u show is Elizabeth Seymour on one shot . Such a young girl to die .
I am not sure if the narrator has mentioned this fact but Catherine Howard was a cousin to Anne Boleyn.
Katheryn Howard, is a traffic victim, a victim of her time, her family and Henny himself who chose to make himself a fool.
I have a feeling, Henry was happy to be ridden of, Jane
Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford. She was his daily reminder of, Anne Boleyn.
Henry's leg ulcers were so bad, they could be smelled 4-6 rooms away. Katheryn, was a teenager who forced her into marriage to begin with.
poor child
You mentioned that Lady Rochford, (Mary Boleyn) assisted Howard and Culpepper. Was she imprisoned or punished aftee her involvement was discovered?
I really enjoy these videos; they're so interesting!
yes, she was beheaded too
Mary Boleyn was married to Anne’s brother, George. Mary possibly spied on her husband and made up stories about him because they had a very unhappy marriage.
Mary Boleyn was Anne's older sister. George's wife was Jane Boleyn and she was executed at the same time as Katherine Howard.
What would have happened if one of these women had said, "No, I don't want to marry you!"
Death for sure. Things were very different back then.😢😢
@@vegetariansuniteworldwide8091 Just WOW!! Pretty much damned if you do, and damned if you don't! I'm glad I wasn't born back then!!
@Angie-GoneSoon For real. I can guarantee I wouldn't have survived before 1980 without being accused of being a witch, seductress, hysterical or a heretic. And then there's my mouth... oh boy, my foul, foul, straightforward, ball busting mouth... yeah, I'd be f*cked. I'd be pissing people off all down the countryside.
Anyone want to bet that even if it's true that she did say she would rather die the wife of Culpepper, tubs here would have tried to cover that up as much as humanity possible to preserve the ego of that fragile cod-piece of his?
The word is 'crowned' not 'coronated'.
Don't you mean +"liberally" rather than "sparingly"?