The Marriage of Henry the VIII and Cathrine of Aragon

Spain and England had a history of poor diplomatic relations, and it was common in the Fifteenth Century for members of a royal family to marry off a daughter or son to a child from another royal family, to establish an alliance between those two countries. Catherine of Aragon was the youngest child of King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castille, who almost immediately began looking for a political match for her. When …

…war. When Henry heard of her death, he celebrated at a banquet in bright yellow from head to toes. Everything that we know of Queen Catherine is to her credit; she was loyal and injured wife, an affectionate friend and mother, and a faithful subject of her adopted country. In the exercise of the strictest piety according to the practices of the Roman church, she found, in the days of her misfortune, her only consolation.