Next Meeting: 21st November at 7.15pm for 7.45pm in the Crawford Hall, Salford Road, Bidford on Avon.
Visitors £6.00
Catherine of Aragon
We all know about Catherine of Aragon: she was ‘the first wife’. But what was she really like? Catherine was a remarkable and capable woman who steered a complicated course through Tudor England for more than 30 years. Well educated, courageous and politically shrewd, she was loved by the people and was in most ways an excellent royal consort.
But she failed in one thing: to provide her husband with the Son and Heir. This talk tells Catherine’s largely forgotten story, from childhood in the palaces of Spain, to her short-lived first marriage, her traumatic fight for survival as a young widow, her triumphant second marriage and the catastrophe of “The King’s Great Matter” that saw her set aside in favour of Anne Boleyn...
Speaker: Dr. Gillian White
Evening Host: Chris Smith