i have great affection for catherine of aragon. aordinary and courageous woman. margaret, henry's sister, leaves an amazing life. she is married as a very young woman to james of scotla nd very young woman to james of scotland and then when widowed she chooses her husband and she has to run away from scotland. she gets to england and divorces him, she marries a third husband. she is behaving as if she was in total charge of her own destiny. and of course the loss of her first husband is the fault of the english court. yes, it's played as a campaign by catherine of aragon, so you have this terrible dark side of the sisterhood, but they are always rivals and it is catherine of aragon's campaign that kills her brother—in—law. aragon's campaign that kills her brother-in-law. you can't read about these events, whether in straight history orfiction, these events, whether in straight history or fiction, without a sort of mind—boggling feeling of everything that subsequently came is determined by this almost can't events. i think the idea o

i have great affection for catherine of aragon. arried as a very young woman to james of scotland and then, when widowed, she chooses her husband and she has to run away from scotland. she gets to england and divorces him, she marries a third husband for choice. she's behaving as if she were in total charge of her own destiny. but of course the loss of her first husband is the fault of the english court. yes, its planned as a campaign by catherine of aragon, so you have this terrible dark side of the sisterhood, that they are always rivals and it is catherine of aragon's campaign that kills her brother—in—law. you can't read about these events, whether in straight history or fiction, without a sort of mind—boggling feeling of everything that subsequently came is determined by some of these almost chance events. i think the idea of history as the past, as another country, as the past is another country, i think when you're an historian you get this real double view of it. on the one hand you go, yes, it's almost completely separate f