2011年2月13日 · After her short address, Lady Rochford knelt, laying her neck on the block, and her head was taken off with one blow of the axe. The bodies and heads of Catherine Howard and Lady Rochford were then taken to the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula for burial.

Catherine, younger and politically naïve, condemned to a dull axe by a resentful man, subsequently faced the second injustice of an underdeveloped legacy, fueled by Henry’s disregard for her suffering and memory.

2013年2月14日 · Katherine died by one single stroke of the axe, and her body was carted away to the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula. Directly following her execution, Lady Jane Rochford - Katherine's accomplice - laid her head on the bloody block and suffered the same way.

2012年10月17日 · After speaking the ‘customary words of edification and confession’ (Baldwin, Pg. 188), Catherine Howard knelt just as she had practised and the axe took off her head. According to Chapuys, she was beheaded in the same spot where her cousin, Queen Anne Boleyn, had been executed six years earlier.

2017年7月19日 · The executioner did his job well and a single blow from the axe was all it took to end Catherine Howard’s life. There is no truth in the old fable that she proclaimed that although she was dying the wife of a king, she would much rather be dying the wife of a Culpepper.

Queen Catherine Howard was beheaded on February 13, 1542, just a day before Valentine’s Day, with a single stroke of the executioner's axe. Ironically, it was Henry VIII himself who would make Valentine’s Day an official English holiday in 1537.

Catherine Howard[b] (c. 1523 – 13 February 1542) was Queen of England from July 1540 until November 1541 as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, a cousin to Anne Boleyn (the second wife of Henry VIII), and the niece of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk.

2017年2月13日 · Katherine Howard was executed with a single stroke of the axe. Jane Boleyn, mad or not, was executed immediately afterwards having seen her mistress die before her.

2020年9月2日 · In 1540, Catherine Howard became King Henry VIII's fifth wife. But in 1542, she was beheaded on his orders after being charged with adultery. She was just 19.

2015年9月29日 · Anne Boleyn was executed on May 19, 1536. Displaying an act of "mercy", King Henry VIII dispatched a skilled executioner to perform the execution by sword rather than by axe or being burned at the stake. The swordsman was dispatched from Calais, English occupied France at the time.