Henry's second wife Ann Boleyn was watching a game of Real Tennis in Whitehall when she was arrested, and according to the official Web site of Hampton Court, legend has it he was playing when told she had beenexecuted.
The decline in the number who prefer the death penalty as the punishment for murder may be related to the growing number who believe that at least one person in the past five years hasbeenexecuted for a crime that he or she did not commit.
He will have taken as much pleasure from seeing England out-think Australia as hehas from seeing them outplay them after concocting plans for each opposing batsman that have invariably beenexecuted to perfection under Vaughan's imaginative and unyielding captaincy.