Very much in love with her philandering, spoiled king of a husband who blames her for not giving him a son, she is a very popular and charitable queen to the common folk, adored by the entire nation, and also a very dutiful mother. Mary is devastated, collects a box of her mother's things and even though she comes to love her father's third, fourth and sixth wives, she never forgets her mother.Įarly in the first season Catherine is introduced. He tearfully reads the letter, while Anne Boleyn is unfazed and simply states that now she is finally the Queen, even though Catherine remains Queen of England in the nation's eyes. While supported by Elizabeth Darrell in her death bed, Catherine writes Henry a letter, asking to provide for her servants and their daughter, pledging her forgiveness, and praying for his soul. In late season two, not long before Henry becomes infatuated with Jane Seymour, Catherine becomes sick and succumbs to her illness, even having hallucinations of Mary. Her only friend in reach is Elizabeth Darrow, her devoted maid who refuses to leave her. After a long and hard struggle, she is eventually sent away from court to live, lonely and desolate, and banned from seeing her beloved daughter. However, his obsession with the beautiful Anne Boleyn ultimately destroyed their marriage. While she was cheated on by her husband many times, his infidelities even resulting in a son by her maid Bessie Blount, she never called him out on it and confides to her maids that he blames her for being unable to produce a son. Crowned in 1509 before her marriage to Henry was annulled in 1533, she was a charitable and popular queen, a pious Catholic, and a devoted mother and wife. She appears in Season 1, Season 2 and the finale episode of Season 4 in 16 episodes total she is portrayed by award-winning Irish actress Maria Doyle Kennedy.Ĭatherine is a direct descendant of the Spanish royal line, the youngest daughter of Queen Isabella of Castille and King Ferdinand of Aragon. "As long as I am alive, I will call myself 'the Queen of England." - Catherine of AragonĬatherine of Aragon was the first wife and senior Queen of King Henry VIII of England and the mother of Princess Mary Tudor.
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