Catalina-Catherine emerges as a character who might not be particularly shrewd, but has a strong moral center, and is assertive without being aggressive. In the meantime, Catherine has to deal with running a household on a shoestring budget and keeping one step ahead of all the officials, both English and Spanish, who would like to undermine her. Catalina, now called Catherine, is now stuck in rainy England while her new family, particularly her father-in-law King Henry VII, try to figure out whether she should be sent back to Spain, having outlived her usefulness, or keep her around to marry Arthur's brother Henry when he comes of age. But sickly Arthur dies a few months after the wedding. To twelve-year-old me, Catalina's life was boring by comparison because no one was trying to actually murder her - at least, not yet.Ĭatalina, Ferdinand and Isabella's youngest child, is sent to England to marry Arthur, Prince of Wales. This used to be my least favorite of the three Young Royals novels I'd read (the other two being Mary, Bloody Mary and Beware, Princess Elizabeth).
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