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Erickson, Carolly
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Fiction
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2013
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St. Martin's Press
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English
โ 200 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen
โ Scribed by Tremlett, Giles
- Book ID
- 109308803
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780571271740
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โฆ Synopsis
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...
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