Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon
Species:	Human
Place of origin:	Spain
Death:	Before 1539
Children:	Mary I
Spouse:	Henry VIII
In-laws:	Henry VII, Elizabeth of York
First mentioned in:	God Send Me Well to Keep [+]Loading...["God Send Me Well to Keep (short story)"]
First appearance:	Nothing Lasts Forever [+]Loading...["Nothing Lasts Forever (short story)"]
Appearances:	PROSE: A Hundred Words from a Civil War [+]Loading...["A Hundred Words from a Civil War (short story)"] PROSE: Girl Power! [+]Loading...["Girl Power! (short story)"]

Catherine of Aragon was the first wife of Henry VIII.

Biography

She came from Spain. (PROSE: God Send Me Well to Keep ^[+]Loading...["God Send Me Well to Keep (short story)"])

In 1509, Lover attempted to take her place in history by swallowing and impersonating Catherine on the eve of the wedding. She planned on altering time by giving birth to a healthy son who would have many descendants and keep the throne within Henry's family past 1752. Brother Bow ordered Lover to abandon this plan, so she released Catherine and left 1509 with Bow. (PROSE: Nothing Lasts Forever ^[+]Loading...["Nothing Lasts Forever (short story)"])

She was involved in Missy's plan to befriend several Tudor women in an effort to prevent the reign of James I, who created the charter for St Luke's University, thereby preventing her imprisonment in the Vault. (PROSE: Girl Power! ^[+]Loading...["Girl Power! (short story)"])

Catherine was the mother of Mary I. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo ^[+]Loading...["The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)"]) She eventually divorced Henry. (PROSE: The Roundheads ^[+]Loading...["The Roundheads (novel)"])

By 1539, Catherine had died. Following her death, Henry had become embroiled in a legal battle with Spanish ambassadors over the ownership of Catherine's estate. (PROSE: God Send Me Well to Keep ^[+]Loading...["God Send Me Well to Keep (short story)"])

Legacy

The Sixth Doctor was in possession of six wedding invitations from Henry VIII. (COMIC: The Gift ^[+]Loading...["The Gift (comic story)"]) The Second Doctor and Polly counted the wives of Henry VIII using the rhyme "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived". (PROSE: The Roundheads ^[+]Loading...["The Roundheads (novel)"])

Behind the scenes

Catherine was played by Annette Crosbie in The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Siobhân Hewlett in Henry: Mind of a Tyrant and Claire Bloom and Kate Duchene in different adaptations of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII.