Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: Six Tudor Queens 1

Reviews

Claire

Alison Weir's expert research and eloquent penmanship show Katherine as the strong, self assured yet humble woman she was. What I enjoyed the most was how Alison portrayed this from Katherines point of view, and how she took into account what Katherine knew about the events going on around her and how she would of found out about what was going on in the world.

ddragirl

Honestly out of all the books I have read, I highly recommend this book. Many people believe that it was consummated and that it was a noble lie of Katherine as her purpose was to be Queen of England.

MrsB

I have no issue with the book itself or the way it's written, I'm enjoying reading it (although I haven't finished it yet). Denied a return to Spain, but forced into an almost reclusive lifestyle in England, eventually betrothed to Arthur's brother Henry, she is kept in the dark about whether her second wedding will ever take place.

eleanor

After reading lots of books on the Tudors there have been questions surrounding Katherine as to whether her marriage to Arthur was consummated. Hats off to Alison Weir, a superbly researched, beautifully detailed, heart wrenching account of the first wife of Henry VIII of England, Katherine of Aragon. WoW. However, her subsequent marriage to, and life with her Henry is not to be the fairy tale she imagined.

The daughter of Isabella of Spain and Ferdinand of Aragon, Catalina is sent to England at fifteen years of age to marry Prince Arthur, the older brother of Prince Henry (Later King Henry VIII). Katherine is then subjected to the ever changing moods of Henry VII.

However, it soon becomes apparent that Arthur is not in good health, and he passes away a few short months following the wedding. Torn from her privileged life in Spain and forced to change her Name to Katherine for the sake of appearances, Catalina is welcomed by the subjects of the then King Henry VII, and is dutifully wed to his oldest son, Arthur.

It’s very insightful and Alison Weir has done an amazing job at creating a fiction that stays true to the historical facts from the period of 1501 when Katherine landed in England to marry Arthur, through to her death in 1536. Imagine her joy when Henry VII's death leads to fresh proposals from the new King, Henry VIII. A must for any avid readers of Tudor History and associated Historical Fiction. The condition was said to be "very good" although once I got the book I was disappointed that it had tears in the cover and a stain on one of the pages- something I would consider to not be "very good".