Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1923262 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover

Customer Reviews

a real royal consort - a woman of standing and conviction

Catherine of Aragon was the well-known and much loved (unfortunately not by her husband) first wife of Henry VIII. She is the mother of Queen Mary I.

Professor Garrett Mattingly (1900-1962) was a professor of European history at Columbia University who specialized in early modern diplomatic history and won a Pulitzer Prize for a bestseller about the Spanish Armada.

Mattingly's first book was the biography, Catherine of Aragon (1941); a book which is described as "extremely careful and accurate and enormously erudite". For me the book is an absolute highlight of Tudor biographies. One really can learns to understand this woman and queen. Whatever one's feelings about her are, at least one has to respect her. If you want to learn about her, do read this book first. She was real royal princess and a queen without a fault, a woman of conviction and consequence, a strong personality a queen consort who could and maybe should have been a sovereign queen.

I find is strange that in this year when constantly new biographies on Tudor teems are published, this excellent book is not reprinted.