Catherine Howard’s Rise and Cromwell’s Death on July 28, 1540: Sources

I read Gareth Russell’s Young and Damned and Fair a few months ago, and it was the best source for this short video on the occurrences of July 28, 1540 in Tudor England: Catherine Howard’s marriage, and her future foreshadowed in Cromwell’s fate.

Sources:

Russell, Gareth. Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Web sources cited:

Historic Royal Palaces. “Catherine Howard.” Hampton Court Palace. https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/history-and-stories/catherine-howard/.

Historic Royal Palaces. “Catherine Howard’s Proclamation as Queen, Hampton Court, 1540.” HRP Blog, July 30, 2025. https://www.hrp.org.uk/blog/catherine-howards-proclamation-as-queen-hampton-court-1540/.

Image sources:

Portrait of a Young Woman, Workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger, 1540–45, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

John Hoskins, Anne Boleyn, 17th century, miniature on vellum, Duke of Buccleuch Collection, on loan to Hever Castle, Kent, UK.

Hans Holbein the Younger, Catherine Howard (attributed), 1540, miniature; watercolor and gouache on vellum, National Portrait Gallery.

Hans Holbein the Younger, Thomas Cromwell, 1532-33, oil on canvas, The Frick Museum, New York, NY.