Henry felt that the crown needed a male heir but his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, produced only a daughter, Mary. |
At the age of two he was betrothed to the three-year-old Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. |
He's a very engaging, open-faced, unlikely looking executioner, who connects with the barrio, like Art Aragon used to. |
During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Aquitaine, Aragon, Castile, and Spain. |
The Santangel family was one of the wealthiest in King Ferdinand's realm of Aragon. |
Henry's break from Rome is convincingly anatomised, and Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn both emerge as strong, self-willed players. |