TIL that Henry VIII dressed in yellow and threw a party with a banquet and jousting when Catherine of Aragon died, and I realize this happened five hundred years ago but I am going to be mad about this all day.
TIL that Henry VIII dressed in yellow and threw a party with a banquet and jousting when Catherine of Aragon died, and I realize this happened five hundred years ago but I am going to be mad about this all day.
When Henry VIII decided he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon was under extraordinary pressure to simply take the veil and go quietly. (Imagine how different the history of Anglicanism might be if she'd done so.) I can never decide whether it is admirable or sad that she showed such steel in order to remain married to . . . that guy?