Catherine of Aragon by Giles Tremlett is a glorious account of the life of the Spanish princess who married Henry VIII to became Queen of England - and changed the course of the reformation and Tudor history.
Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the heir - providing Jane Seymour or the eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty with a passion she had inherited from her parents, Isabella and Ferdinand, the joint-rulers of Spain who had driven the Moors from their country.