The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula is a Chapel Royal and the former parish church of the Tower of London. The chapel's name refers to the story of Saint Peter's imprisonment under Herod Agrippa i
Side of St Peter chapel that faces the place of execution on Tower Green
Catherine Howard
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Catherine Howard 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 first cousin to Anne Bol
Church of St Peter ad Vincula
…The Chapel is probably best known as the burial place of some of the most famous prisoners executed at the Tower, including Queen Anne Boleyn, Queen Catherine Howard, the "nine-day Queen", Lady Jane Grey (with her husband Lord Guildford Dudley) and the Lord High Chancellor, Sir Thomas More. The original foundation…
Possible portrait of Howard
Agnes Howard, née Tilney, the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, line engraving from 1793, based on an original from 1513
Catherine of Aragon m. 1509–1533
Anne Boleyn m. 1532/1533–1536