Curated playlist
Howard family (English aristocracy)
- Anne BoleynAnne Boleyn laughed on the scaffold, joking that she had a little neck.
- Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of WiltshireElizabeth Boleyn outlived two of her children by barely two years. Both were executed in one week of May 1536.
- George Boleyn, Viscount RochfordGeorge Boleyn's execution crowd fell almost completely silent to hear his scaffold speech.
- Mary BoleynMary Boleyn married a penniless soldier, and her sister the queen disowned her. She was banished from court in 1534.
- Catherine HowardCatherine Howard was queen of England for barely sixteen months. Henry VIII's fifth wife was beheaded in 1542.
- Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of SurreyTwo of Elizabeth Tilney's granddaughters became queens of England, but she died in 1497 before seeing it.
- Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of NorfolkThomas Howard turned down a chance to escape the Tower of London, and that may have helped his career.
- Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of NorfolkThe Duke of Norfolk sentenced his own niece Anne Boleyn to death. Thomas Howard presided at her 1536 trial.
- John Howard, 1st Duke of NorfolkA note pinned to his tent warned John Howard not to fight at Bosworth. He rode into battle for Richard III anyway.
- Howard familyTwo queens of England came from the Howard family. Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were both wives of Henry VIII.