Ebook: Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish queen: a biography
Author: of Aragon Queen consort of Henry VIII King of England Catherine, King of England Henry VIII, Tremlett Giles
- Tags: British & Irish History, European History, HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain, HISTORY--Modern--16th Century, Kings and rulers, Queens, Queens--England, Biographies, History, Electronic books, Biography, Catherine -- of Aragon Queen consort of Henry VIII King of England -- 1485-1536, Henry -- VIII -- King of England -- 1491-1547, Queens -- England -- Biography, Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Biography, Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII 1509-1547, HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain, HISTORY -- Mode
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- City: London;England;Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the heir-providing Jane Seymour or the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her twenties with a passion she had inherited from her parents, Isabella and Ferdinand, the joint-rulers of Spain who had driven the Moors from their country.
This daughter of conquistadors showed the same steel and sense of command when organising the defeat of the Scots at the Battle of Flodden and Henry was to learn, to his cost, that he had not met a tougher opponent on or off the battlefield when he tried to divorce her.
Henry VIII introduced four remarkable women into the tumultuous flow of England's history: Catherine of Aragon and her daughter 'Bloody' Queen Mary; and Anne Boleyn and her daughter, the Virgin Queen Elizabeth. 'From this contest, between two mothers and two daughters, was born the religious passion and violence...