Catherine of Aragon

In Our Time: History by BBC

Mar 13, 202552:38Society & Culture

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 her to marry Arthur, Prince of Wales...

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