However, they weren't married straight away due to wrangling between King Ferdinand and King Henry VII over Catherine's dowry. In April 1509 Henry assumed the throne on the death of his father ...

She was buried at Peterborough Cathedral, 12 days after her death. The Spanish princess Katharine of Aragon is one of Henry VIII's most well known wives, and the most pitied. To mark the date in ...

Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536), the youngest child of the newly dominant Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella. When she was 3, her parents contracted ...