Francis dereham who had been her lover when she was 13 or 14 came to court and asked Katherine for work. This was a fatal mistake. In September a man came to see the king’s adviser and said that he knew ‘things’ about the queen’s past . Katherine had had several sexual partners before she married the king. The boy who was now working as her secretary had previously been her lover.
…it makes my heart die when I think that I cannot always be in your company… I have never wished for anything so much as to see you. Yours as long as life endures.
The evidence was conclusive. She and her lovers were doomed by this immoral behavior. The king locked her in a room. She spent following day in hysterics neither eating nor drinking and crying uncontrollably. She tried to run past the guards to beg his forgiveness but she was dragged back screaming to her room.
13 february 1542 almost too weak she was taken to tower hill and beheaded. She was buried next to her cousin anne Boleyn in the tower of London.