He left without warning, failing to bid farewell to Catherine of Aragon, his wife and queen of ... based closely on the lives of her friends and family at the court of James I.

Catherine was born near Madrid in December 1485. She was the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, whose marriage had united Spain. At three years of age Catherine was betrothed to King ...

Anne Boleyn – beautiful, erotic and ambitious – spent all but the last six months of her life with Henry VIII battling against a woman she never quite managed to defeat: Catherine of Aragon ...

Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536), the youngest child of the newly dominant Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella. When she was 3, her parents contracted ...