Catherine of Aragon by Alison Prince

Author:Alison Prince
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2013-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

9th October 1507

The King is interested in marrying Juana. Catherine is all in favour of it. She has started to think diplomatically now and actually consults Uncle Rod quite often, with a new respect for his opinions. She can see that the alliance Henry hopes to forge with Philip’s father, Maximilian (a brigand of a man, if you ask me), spells out a terrible danger to her father, so any link between England and Spain is to be welcomed.

Henry is concerned about the question of Juana’s sanity, of course, having heard the tale of the mad coffin-carrying. My uncle assures him that Juana was simply driven beyond endurance by her beloved husband’s flagrant infidelity to her. It is true that she did once attack one of his mistresses with a pair of scissors but, given steady kindness and care, she would very probably recover her stability. Henry was much taken with her during her short visit, and likes to regard her as an ill-used woman who is waiting for him to rescue her. The Tudors are incurably romantic.

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