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Today is the birthday of Catherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII and mother of Mary I of England.... [View all]
Her life was often hard. Married first, briefly to Prince Arthur who died at age 16, then kept unwillingly by Henry VII until his younger son Henry was old enough to marry her. She enjoyed a fabulous life as queen until her inability to produce a son led Henry to ditch her. Really bad move.
It would be her 526th birthday. As Kurt Vonnegut says...."So it goes......"
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