Keepsake Answers
Here are the answers to the Tower of London Quiz from 'Matilda's Secrets and Keepsakes', but don't cheat and look here before you've had a chance to test yourself properly!
Where in the Tower of London did Katherine Howard meet her fate? Tower Green
Legend says that the 'kingdom will fall' if the ravens ever leave. How many ravens must there be at the Tower? 6 plus one spare
When Katherine Howard was first brought down the river to the Tower of London with Matilda, she was horrified to see the rotting heads of her two ex-boyfriends on spikes. Who were they?
Francis Dereham and Thomas Culpepper
When Katherine was told she was to be executed, she begged to have the chopping block brought in to practice upon. She wanted to meet death nobly and gracefully. From whom did she ask permission to use the block? Sir Edmund Walsingham
What is the name of the gate through which Katherine entered the Tower? The Water Gate, later known as Traitors Gate.
Which cousin of Katherine's had also been executed? Anne Boleyn