![]() ![]() She will do anything to achieve her aim even if it means telling the greatest lie, and holding to it. Yet Katherine is her mother's daughter and her fighting spirit is indomitable. His father and grandmother are against it her powerful parents prove little use. Unexpectedly in this arranged marriage, a tender and passionate love develops." But when the studious young man dies, she is left to make her own future: how can she now be queen, and found a dynasty? Only by marrying Arthur's young brother, the sunny but spoilt Henry. Philippa Gregory The Constant Princess Kindle Edition by Philippa Gregory (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 6,032 ratings Book 6 of 15: The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. ![]() ![]() Slowly she adapts to the first Tudor court, and life as Arthur's wife grows ever more bearable. She knows that it is her destiny to rule that far-off, wet, cold land." "Her faith is tested when her prospective father-in-law greets her arrival in her new country with a great insult Arthur seems little better than a boy the food is strange and the customs coarse. At the age of three, she is betrothed to Prince Arthur, son and heir of Henry VII of England, and is raised to be Princess of Wales. Goodreads says, " Katherine of Aragon is born Catalina, the Spanish Infanta, to parents who are both kings and crusaders. ![]()
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