Catherine of Aragon

First published in 1941, eminent European historian Garrett Mattingly's Catherine of Aragon was the first real biography of the youngest daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella who married Henry VIII.She loved England and England loved her from the day she landed-an outwardly brave, inwardly scared fifteen-year-old-to the day of her death.Henry loved her longer and more loyally than he ever loved anyone else, lived in wedded peace with her for eighteen years, and in uneasy friendship for four more after he had started proceedings for divorce.She loved Henry better than anyone else ever did, and found in her love the courage to oppose him more unflinchingly than anyone else ever dared to do.

The clash of their formidable wills changed the course of history.This vivid, dramatic biography, with its smallest detail resting solidly on painstaking research, discloses a new English heroine and presents the whole epoch of Henry VIII in a new light, startlingly revealing and utterly convincing.