or the younger Catherine Howard, nonetheless, this was a date to recollect. At the same time as Cromwell was being taken to the scaffold, the Duke of Norfolk’s fairly teenage niece was dressing for crucial day of her life. Just a few days earlier, the king had secured an annulment of his marriage to Anne of Cleves, and his eye had already fallen on Catherine as her substitute. It was apparently love – or lust – at first sight, at the least for Henry.
Did Catherine know that, whilst she was repeating her marriage vows at Surrey’s Oatlands Palace, Cromwell’s freshly severed head was rotting on a spike? We’ll by no means know. What we do know, although, is that her 49-year-old husband appeared aflame with ardour, since stories counsel he might barely hold his palms off her.
At first, all appeared properly, however as month adopted month, the connection started to show bitter. Maybe, because the king’s attentions waned and her personal eye started to wander, Catherine typically mirrored on the destiny of the person who had as soon as been the king’s closest confidant. | Written by Dominic Sandbroook
28 July 1683
Anne Stuart, the second daughter of the longer term King James II and VII and herself a future queen of England, married Prince George of Denmark within the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace.
28 July 1790
The Forth and Clyde Canal was formally opened. Designed by Yorkshire engineer John Smeaton and operating from Bowling on the Clyde to Grangemouth on the Forth, the 35-mile-long waterway took 22 years to finish.
28 July 1821
Jose de San Martin declared Peru’s independence from Spain in Lima. Independence was not, nonetheless, ensured till Antonio José de Sucré’s victory over forces loyal to Spain on the battle of Ayacucho in December 1824.
28 July 1902
Thinker Karl Popper was born in Vienna. The rise of Nazism led him to to migrate to New Zealand in 1937. From 1946 he taught on the LSE. Appointed professor of logic and scientific technique on the College of London in 1949, he was knighted in 1965.
