Slightly hidden in the depths of the Huntingdonshire countryside stands the remains of an imposing Tudor home. Its red brick towers loom above green lawns, while its narrow, barred windows look out over the remnants of a moat, all of which hint at what this place once was.

This is Buckden Towers, once both an idyllic country home of Henry VIII and a prison for a queen. The house sits in the middle of the village of Buckden, Cambridgeshire just a few miles north of St Neots. While peaceful and quiet to walk around now, the palace has a dark and unhappy history, as the prison of one queen and the centre of a love affair that led to the execution of another.

The first queen to meet her fate at Buckden was Henry VIII 's first wife Katherine of Aragon who after being blamed for not prod

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