Catherine of Aragon: The True Queen

They were to be each other's support and affirm it before God. However, only she cared... Already the weather in the English harbour foretells that the Spanish infanta Catalina will have to arm herself thoroughly against the unkindness of the North. Marriage policy has appointed the local first-born prince Arthur Tudor as her husband, but fate has other, far grimmer plans for her. When her ailing husband dies soon afterwards, her young brother-in-law Henry finds a crush on the young widow. Although he eventually takes her to the altar, the suffering in the life of Queen Catherine (1485-1536) is far from over. Neither of their sons is given even two months to live, the death is mounting, the years are passing. Temperamental Henry VIII. desperate for an heir, he sacrifices first warmth, then loyalty, and then judgment. And so, while the history of Tudor England, with the complicity of Anne Boleyn, is heading for an infamous divorce, that will shake up the mores of early modern Europe, the fading Catholic queen worries not only about survival in conditions determined by male will or about the legitimate claims of her only daughter, but also for the salvation of her own soul... The first volume of the Six Tudor Queens series presents a dramatic epic about an inwardly honest monarch, whose saintly patience contrasts sharply with her husband's actions, asserting his ego against all obstacles, temporal and spiritual. Not to mention the blood spilled. the length of the recording: 27 hours 36 minutes