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Tower of London's most high-profile prisoners - including Hitler’s second-in-command
Daily Star looks at some of the famous inmates of all time...Henry VIII’s second wife ended up in the Tower twice – once staying there as a free woman prior to her coronation and once as a prisoner after she failed to produce an heir.Jailed on trumped-up charges of adultery, treason and an incestuous affair with her brother, she was beheaded on the site’s scaffold on May 19, 1536.Catherine Howard, Henry’s fifth wife, would meet a similar fate when she was imprisoned and then executed at the Tower of London in 1542.Handsome, brave and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, the explorer ended up imprisoned for the first time in 1592 after it was revealed he had secretly wed one of the monarch’s maids of honour.His second spell inside lasted 13