Audio Book Description:
Kathrine of Aragon. Daughterof QueenIsabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, Katherine has been fated to marry PrinceArthur of England. But tragically Arthurfalls ill and extracts from hisyoung bride a deathbed promise to marry his brother Henry, become Queen, and fulfillthier dreams and her destiny. Widowed and alone in the avaricous world of the Tudor court, Katherine has to sidestep herfather-in-law`s desire for herand convience him, and anincredulous Europe, that her marriage toArthur was never consummated, taht thereis no obsticaleto marriage with Henry. For seven years, she endures thetreachery of spies, the humiliation of poverty, and intense lonliness and despair while she waits for the inevitable moment when she wil step intothe role she has prepared for all her life.