Catherine Howard (27 page)
12.
Westminster
.
13
.
Richmond
Palace
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14. Henry VIII in Council.
15. Anne Boleyn was Catherine’s cousin.
16. Thomas Howard, the Third Duke of Norfolk, the ambitious uncle of both Anne Boleyn and Catherine. He encouraged Henry’s courtship of his niece, Catherine, in spite of her unsuitability for the role of queen.
17. The Red Queen, Anne of
Cleves
.
18. The most widely used portrait of Catherine but not an authenticated likeness of her.
19. It fell to Archbishop Thomas Cranmer to inform Henry of his young wife’s adultery.
20. At Hampton Court there is what is described as the ‘haunted gallery’, which adjoins the Queen’s chambers and Henry’s chapel. It is there that Catherine is said to have eluded her guards, and sought out her husband, who was hearing
Mass.
Just as she reached the door, she was seized and forced back to her chambers, while her screams resounded up and down the gallery. This presumably is the explanation of the female form, dressed in traditional white, which drifts down the gallery to the door of the chapel, and then hurries back, ‘a ghastly look of despair’ upon its face and uttering ‘the most unearthly shrieks’, until the phantom disappears through the chamber door at the end of the gallery.
21., 22. and 23. Catherine passed through Traitors Gate on
Tower
of
London
.
