Catherine of aragon

Catalina de Aragón, palacio de Lambeth - Category:Portraits of Catherine of Aragon - Wikimedia Commons

Above you can see three different portraits of Henry VIII, painted at three different points in his life by three different artists. However, not all portraits from the Tudor era are as easy to identify or are as definitively identified as these ones. In fact, there are a great deal of paintings f...

Adrienne Byrne as Catherine of Aragon and Jason Kemp as Prince Arthur in The Shadow of the Tower (1972), Episode 13: The King Without a Face edited by me; apologies for any remaining artifacts!

Katherine of Aragon before Henry VIII at the legatine court, 1529.>>> This is very dramatized. Katherine was a Spanish princess of ancient royal blood: she loved Henry but she didn't need to put up with anyone else's baloney, and took her time entering the court. Then she appealed to his sense of decency, asking what she'd done wrong to be set aside, more or less repudiating the legitimacy of the hearings with her regal manner. And she stunned Henry with her approach.

This Michael Sittow painting of Mary Magdalene is thought to be a portrait of Catherine. It was painted when she was still a Spanish princess, before going to England to marry Prince Arthur in 1501. She is probably no older than 15.