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She’s the DISAPPEARING QUEEN but how did Queen Katherine Howard vanish from her final resting place? Henry VIII’s fifth wife was executed alongside her lady-in-waiting, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, on 13 February 1542 at the Tower of London. It has always been said that both were buried in the Chapel of St Peter Ad Vincula next to Katherine’s cousins, Queen Anne Boleyn and George Boleyn (who was also Jane’s husband). However when the floor in front of the altar was excavated by the Victorians in the 1870s in order to carry out restoration work on the Chapel, no bones belonging to Katherine were found, though Anne and Jane were both located. The disappearance of Katherine Howard was explained by the theory that her bones must have dissolved in lime due to her youth at the time of her death and this idea has been accepted by many ever since. Modern science has proved it to be false however. Lime does not speed up the decay of a corpse, it retards it and therefore it cannot explain what happened to Katherine Howard’s body. So what other reasons might explain the complete absence of her remains? In this six wives documentary from History Calling, we go back to the original sources to study this Tudor mystery in more detail, starting with the death of Katherine Howard, what we hear about her burial and then asking, what happened to the body of this infamous Queen and might we ever find these missing royal remains? Is she one of the famous historical figures who is buried at the Tower of London, or is she not? Possibilities I’ll discuss include whether the bones of Katherine Howard were stolen, if she was buried somewhere else, if she decomposed naturally, or if the Victorians simply missed her. BUY MY BOOK (Find Your Irish Ancestors Online): https://amzn.to/3Z2ChnG Website (with 2 FREE DOWNLOADS): https://www.historycallingofficial.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historycalling Amazon storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/historycalling Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historycalling/ OTHER VIDEOS YOU MIGHT LIKE: HOW OLD WAS KATHERINE HOWARD? https://youtu.be/NOUVSCKw4BY THE FACE OF JANE BOLEYN? https://youtu.be/RgzPmuUA5EA DEATH OF KATHERINE HOWARD AND JANE BOLEYN https://youtu.be/LaiU2HHTuKQ CATHERINE PARR’S CORPSE https://youtu.be/p6lPB4uzmwI DIGGING UP ANNE BOLEYN AND OTHERS https://youtu.be/EjCxVN7V6FA SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII PLAYLIST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLSjVq5Qtb0Hb5Wjykc2hBrBddQYXDUqU TUDOR MONARCHS’ PLAYLIST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLSjVq5Qtb0FD_vatnjVq9egboPYy8Kg0 DEATH, MURDER AND CORPSES’ PLAYLIST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLSjVq5Qtb0HqKJP-pwWUcP1OtH1hRvN4 GEAR USED DJI Drone: https://amzn.to/39hROZm Go-Pro Hero 10 camera: https://amzn.to/3rTWScL GoPro 3-Way 2.0 (Tripod/Grip/Arm): https://amzn.to/3vaVxjU Memory Card: https://amzn.to/3KeLZZs Microphone: https://amzn.to/3rYtjH8 BUY OR RENT: The Tudors, season 1 https://amzn.to/3rFmveg (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/2VCwQ0j (US link) The Tudors, season 2 https://amzn.to/3m64HIn (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/2VMPnHw (US link) The Tudors, season 3 https://amzn.to/3wiwPwi (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3BijsPB (US link) The Tudors, season 4 https://amzn.to/3rNeggF (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3z16S58 (US link) Henry VIII and his Six Wives (2016 docu-drama) https://amzn.to/3jiCkag Six Wives with Lucy Worsley (2016 docu-drama) https://amzn.to/3hd93vd (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3wH2mr2 (US link) LEARN MORE: [FREE] Eline M.J. Schotsmans, Katrien Van de Vijver, Andrew S. Wilson and Dominique Castex, ‘Interpreting lime burials. A discussion in light of lime burials at St. Rombout's cemetery in Mechelen, Belgium (10th–18th centuries)’ in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 3 (September 2015), pp 464-79. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X15300572?via%3Dihub Gareth Russell, Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII (2017). https://amzn.to/3xldHhi (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/2VExTgg (US link) Josephine Wilkinson, Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen (London, 2016). https://amzn.to/3x7MxdO (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3rbFuPj (US link) David Starkey, Six Wives: the Queens of Henry VIII (Vintage, 2004) https://amzn.to/3k9uD4Z (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/3wImKIh (US link) Antonia Fraser, The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (2nd edn, Phoenix, 2009) https://amzn.to/3atiEfi (UK link) OR https://amzn.to/36IqD5r (US link) Eric Ives, The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005) https://amzn.to/3xLivgr THUMBNAIL: Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain Creative Commons licenses used see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ NB: Links above may be affiliate links. This means if you make a purchase through one of these links, I earn a small commission. It in no way affects the price you pay.