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Catherine of Aragon
Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife | Amy Licence
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A stunning new full-length biography of Queen Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's wife of over twenty years. The first ever written by a female historian and to concentrate on Catherine as a Tudor woman, rather than a pawn of in the dynastic power plays of men.
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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.“