| Description |
ix, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, genealogical tables, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-416) and index. |
| Note |
Originally published as: Catherine of Aragon : Henry's Spanish queen. London : Faber & Faber, 2010. |
| Summary |
Tremlett delivers the first major biography in nearly half a century of the Spanish Queen of Henry VIII--the woman who changed the face of Tudor and European history. |
| Contents |
Bed -- Queen -- Birth -- Betrothed -- Infanta -- Alhambra princess -- Adios -- Land -- On show -- Wedding -- Silence and sadness -- Married life -- My husband's brother -- Bleed me -- Deceived -- Confessions -- Ambassador -- Married again -- Party queen -- An heir -- Motherhood -- Bedroom politics -- War -- And peace -- Daughters -- A match for Mary -- My sister's son -- Infertility and infidelity -- Bastard -- Divorce: The king's secret matter -- Virginity -- Disease -- Never with the mother -- God and my nephew -- The people's queen -- Spies and disguises -- Defiance -- Ghostly advice -- Carnal copulation -- The lull -- Poison -- Alone -- The queen's jewels -- Secrets and lies -- That whore -- A "bastard" daughter -- Draw, hand, quarter -- Prisoner -- The terror -- Death and conscience. |
| Subject |
Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536.
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Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536. |
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Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 -- Marriage.
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Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547. |
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Marriage. |
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Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Queens. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Marriages of royalty and nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Marriages of royalty and nobility. |
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Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547 -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Tremlett, Giles. Catherine of Aragon. New York : Walker & Co., 2010 (OCoLC)763806163 |
| ISBN |
9780802779168 |
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0802779166 |
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