Meanwhileathome, troubleis brewing in the form ofwhispered accusationsofanaffairinvolvinghisyoungbride, CatherineHoward, and the ambitiousThomasCulpepper.
The study was a collaboration with Prof Richard Marggraf Turley of the English and creative writing department and Prof HowardThomas from the Institute for Biological and Environmental Studies (Ibers).
He has to cheat a bit to engineer this result: neither Thomas Cranmer nor Thomas Wriothesley died in the reign of Henry VIII, and ThomasHoward, Duke of Norfolk, although condemned, was miraculously reprieved.