Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s First Victim- er, Wife- Dies in Exile

Kathy Copeland Padden
5 min readAug 21, 2019
Yeah, it’s from Showtime’s The Tudors. I loved it. Fight me. Photo by Showtime

“The most virtuous woman I have ever known and the highest hearted, but too quick to trust that others were like herself, and too slow to do a little ill that much good might come of it.” — Eustace Chapuys

Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII who was married to him longer than his other five spouses put together, died on January…

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Kathy Copeland Padden

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