Catherine of Aragon first queen of Henry VIII

Elizabeth's elder half-sister, Mary Tudor , was estranged from her by loyalty to her mother (Catherine of Aragon , whom Elizabeth's mother had supplanted) and by her fervent Catholicism. The gap narrowed slightly when...

KP 's mother, born Maud Greene , was a cultivated and sophisticated woman: probably born in London, with a father who owned several large estates. She married in 1508, at the age of thirteen...

The Athenæum was quite mocking about the quality of the history, finding it deficient in the critical evaluation and referencing of sources, and claiming to have derived entertainment but not instruction from the first volume...

By 1537 (the year after the divorced Catherine of Aragon died) Elizabeth Oxenbridge (later Lady Tyrwhit) held a position at Court as gentlewoman of the privy chamber. She was to acquire greater importance at Court...

Lofts, said a reviewer of Anne Boleyn: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Wife, discusses some interesting issues. One is that Catherine of Aragon might well fail to sympathise with her husband's...

JP launched under this name another historical trilogy, about Catherine of Aragon (sometimes spelled Katharine or Katherine), Henry VIII 's first wife, with the Tudor novel Katharine, the Virgin Widow.

Around the age of fourteen JI began penning poetry on the window shutters of her bedroom, after having been denied paper by her strictly evangelical mother . Her earliest surviving poem is Katherine of Aragon

NL published The King's Pleasure, a historical novel inspired by the life of Catherine of Aragon .

The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque...

She begins with Anne as vehicle for the fantasies of later generations: the way that she herself as a small child was regaled by a nun with the idea that but for this depraved woman...