The Unlikeliest Loophole
Eamon Duffy: Catherine of Aragon, 28 July 2011
Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen
by Giles Tremlett.
Faber, 458 pp., £9.99, April 2011,978 0 571 23512 4 Show More
by Giles Tremlett.
Faber, 458 pp., £9.99, April 2011,
“... Catherine of Aragon was Henry VIII’s first and longest-lasting queen, at the heart of his glittering court for almost two decades. In the early years of their marriage, the Spanish princess, daughter of the most glamorous monarchs in Europe, must have seemed every bit as regal as her husband. Yet in the historiography of Tudor England she has become a shadowy figure, a sad frump eclipsed by her savage husband and the brazen mistress who supplanted her ... ”