Friday, December 10, 2010

Tiffany Granite Husban

a day like today ... Kitchen

... a December 10 , 1541 , Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham were executed at Tyburn, accused of having sex with the queen of England, which at that time was the young Catherine Howard (fifth wife of Henry VIII).

Culpeper was one of the favorite servants of the king's private chamber. It says it was a very attractive man, and Catherine Howard fell deeply in love with him. It is said that at the time of the execution of the young Catherine, said: "dying to be queen, but rather die, being the wife of Culpeper" . Although this phrase is not a proven fact, and most historians, suggests that never delivered. However, it is a literary reflection of how much the very young Queen fell in love with one servant. A fact that she too was killed.

Dereham, meanwhile, was a courtier who had sex with a very young Catherine Howard, until it became part of the entourage of ladies of Anne of Cleves (fourth wife of Henry VIII). Later, during the reign of Catherine Howard, the Court again, as secretary in the palace of Hampton Court. One seat was won, possibly to get her to say nothing, to this romance he had with the queen

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