How Catherine of Aragon Learnt to be Queen
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Are We Blessed in Spain With Archival Riches?
There may well be very strong affective relationships between kings queens and their kids. We don't know about it because their records are lost, or we're never written down. There's two big groups of sources: the royal accounts include all these everyday life items that do speak volumes of the magnificence that surrounded her. The second group is correspondence, and this is a specific to catalina, between isavell and fernando,. She could read latin and understand what she was signing at just 11 years old. So i think that is very impressive. Let's build a bit of a picture of this court though. I mean, in your work, teresa, you
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