What Life Was Like for Catherine of Aragon | Defying Henry VIII | History for Sleep

She is usually remembered as the wife Henry VIII discarded. But before any of that, she was the youngest daughter of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon - raised in the most powerful court in Europe, present at the fall of Granada, and trained from infancy to rule. This is the full life of Catherine of Aragon - from her childhood in a travelling Spanish court to her years as Princess of Wales, her marriage to Henry VIII, and her final refusal, in a cold English manor house, to be erased by the man who had tried to set her aside. Along the way, you will meet the formidable Queen Isabella, who shaped her daughter's iron conviction; the Tudor court she entered as a stranger; and a woman whose last letter outlived everyone who tried to silence her.