“praying you that you will come when my Lady Rochford is here.”
It would be their undoing.
Adultery with a queen was high treason, Thomas Culpepper was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered but the sentence was commuted to beheading. He was executed on this day in 1541.
You can read about Thomas's and Catherine's downfall in my blog Dangerous Talk Cost Lives.
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