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Podcast Ten - Catherine of Aragon
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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Jan 24, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
When Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her twenties with a passion she had inherited from her parents, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, the joint-rulers of Spain.
This daughter of conquistadors showed the same steel and King 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.
This daughter of conquistadors showed the same steel and King 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.
Released:
Jan 24, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (18)
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