This passage makes me so sad for a woman who died nearly half a millennium ago:
“She had been her father's ambassador, her husband's adviser, and her country's regent at the time when England won its greatest victory over the Scots. She was the figurehead of worship, a role model of piety, an archetype of beauty, . . . Catherine was all this. Yet she is remembered today for the one thing she did not do: bear a son that survived to adulthood.“
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