After receiving a letter from an anonymous source the King decides to investigate the accusation that two other men knew Catherine 'carnally' while she was under the service of the Dowager Duchess, and he confines his Queen to her apartments with only Lady Rochford. The investigations uncovers many lies and many truths, which results in the execution of one of Catherine Howard's former lovers Francis Dereham, her current lover Thomas Culpepper, Lady Jane Rochford and Herself.
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- Charles Brandon
- Catherine Howard
- King Henry VIII
- Mary Tudor
- Edward Seymour
- Ambassador Bishop Chapuys
- Culpepper
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- Bishop Gardiner
- Anne Stanhope
- Francis Dereham
- Risley
- Thomas Seymour
- Richard Rich
- Lady Rochford
- Joan Bulmer
- Anne Parr
- Lady Fitzgerald
- Lord Harrington
- Young Woman
- Mary's Lady in Waiting
- Edward Baynton
- Young Woman
- Young Woman
- Catherine Parr's Lady in Waiting
- Sergeant at Arms
- Torturer
- Constable of the Tower
- Yeoman