by Giles Tremlett
http://shelfandstuff.blogspot.com/2011/03/catherine-of-aragon-spanish-queen-of.html
I'm a Tudor history junkie. My mom started me on Jean Plaidy practically in the crib, and I've never looked back. This is the first truly sympathetic, in depth portrait of Catherine that I've read. It was so interesting to read the other side of the glamorous, scandalous Great Matter of the King. Be...
Nothing new brought to table here, and without even any sparkle to make this worth while as an also-ran. blurbification - A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who became Queen of England, then changed the course of Tudor history by refusing to grant Henry VIII the divorce he neede...
Very disappointed in this book. It added nothing more than what I knew already from general history . Badly written for example, "She knew she had been good while England had been bad to her" - ehhh. Uncompelling, unsympathetic and generally poor. What a shame.
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