"I am sooooooo confused... The episode synopses for season 4 make it seem as if she lives? Huh?"

"Check out this pic: http://tudorswiki.sho.com/photo/9382066/Katherine+Howard+Tower+Costume

It's from a featurette about the Tower of London. Looks like Kitty is going to have a stay there anyway!
Her execution is TOO important, they can't just erase it! I'm pretty confident about it, though confused as you were!"

"I agree, but MsSquirrly posted director notes on here on a different thread that talked about how he went about filming Katherine's execution scene.

When the synopses were first released everyone got nervous haha! But she will be executed. "

"That's because Kathryn was initially sent to Syon Abbey when she was demoted from her position of Queen Consort, therefore she momentarily thought she might actually live, as any young girl would. That's probably what the synopsis was referring to, Kathryn's death is too important to overlook."

"I believe she was offered a loophole by Cranmer, but thought he was baiting him. If she had admitted to a precontract with Dereham, her life would have been spared. Poor kid, not knowing whom to trust and whom not to!"

"I wasn't aware she was offered that chance, but its something that only makes me feel more sorry for the poor girl. I mean, whose to say he wasn't trying to lull her into a false sense of security. I think, under the circumstances, and especially given it was Cranmer who reported her indiscretions to the King, the same thoughts would preoccupy my mind. I'm not blaming Cranmer, his duty to tell was an obligation to the King, but i don't think someone as young, and as terrified as Kathryn was, would have seen it that way."

"There's a theory put forth that Cranmer got Anne Boleyn to agree to an annulment of the marriage by telling her she would be spared and allowed to go to a nunnery. That theory is based on a report that she cheered up and said she'd be going to a nunnery, after Cranmer visited her in the Tower. On the other hand, Anne was apparently prone to swinging between optimism and despair during her imprisonment so who knows what Cranmer actually told her. Still, I doubt that KH would have been spared no matter what she did."

"Was not Mark Smeaton offered a more merciful death instead of being disembowelled? I believe that was the deal, rather than a straight offer of freedom or life."