April
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/ 2021
Catherine of Aragon was the first wife of the infamous King Henry VIII. Known for her failure to produce a male heir, she was the mother of Mary, later Queen Mary I of England. Catherine would spend most of her life away from her family in Spain, only to be cruelly separated from her daughter when Henry attempted to coerce her into a divorce. Henry’s desperation for an annulment made him renounce the Catholic Church and forge the Church of England. But what of the life and reign of the Spanish Queen of England? Mapping Out the Future of Three-Year-Old Catherine of Aragon Catherine was born Catalina de Aragon in 1485 in a palace north of Madrid to the famed
