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Catherine of Aragon - Henry's Spanish Queen (Paperback, Main)
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Catherine of Aragon - Henry's Spanish Queen (Paperback, Main)
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The youngest child of the legendary monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella
of Spain, Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536) was born to marry for
dynastic gain. Endowed with English royal blood on her mother's
side, she was betrothed in infancy to Arthur, Prince of Wales,
eldest son of Henry VII of England, an alliance that greatly
benefited both sides. Yet Arthur died weeks after their marriage in
1501, and Catherine found herself remarried to his younger brother,
soon to become Henry VIII. The history of England--and indeed of
Europe--was forever altered by their union.
Drawing on his deep knowledge of both Spain and England, Giles
Tremlett has produced the first full biography in more than four
decades of the tenacious woman whose marriage to Henry VIII lasted
twice as long (twenty-four years) as his five other marriages
combined. Her refusal to divorce him put her at the center of one
of history's greatest power struggles, one that has resonated down
through the centuries-- Henry's break away from the Catholic Church
as, bereft of a son, he attempted to annul his marriage to
Catherine and wed Anne Boleyn. Catherine's daughter, Mary, would
controversially inherit Henry's throne; briefly and bloodily, she
returned England to the Catholicism of her mother's native Spain,
foreshadowing the Spanish Armada some three decades later.
From Catherine's peripatetic childhood at the glittering court of
Ferdinand and Isabella to the battlefield at Flodden, where she, in
Henry's absence abroad, led the English forces to victory against
Scotland to her determination to remain queen and her last years in
almost monastic isolation, Giles Tremlett vividly re-creates the
life of a giant figure in the sixteenth century. "Catherine of
Aragon" will take its place among the best of Tudor biography.
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