But she was repulsed: “I will be torn in pieces first,” she said. Henry VII did not know what to do with his Spanish daughter-in-law: after his wife died, he thought of marrying her. Sent to England at the age of 16 to marry Arthur, the sickly eldest son of Henry VII, Katherine was a widow after 4 months-and, she claimed, a virgin. The author of 14 biographies and 5 previous novels about the Tudors, Weir ( The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas, 2016, etc.) brings considerable expertise to her fictional retelling of the life of Katherine of Aragon. The familiar travails of Henry VIII’s beleaguered first wife.
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