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For the first amount of time in paperback—all several of Jean Plaidy’s Katharine of Aragon books in one single volume.Legendary famous novelist Jean Plaidy starts her stories of James VIII’s queens together with the tale of his first wife, the Spanish queen Katharine of Aragon.As an adolescent, Katharine leaves her precious Spain, area of olive groves and soaring cathedrals, for the dull, wet area of England. There she's committed for the king’s oldest child, Arthur, a sickly child who dies 6 months following the wedding. Katharine is left a widow who had been never really a spouse, unhappy in a strange area, having a very dismal future. Her only hope of escape would be to wed the second son, Prince Henry, now heir to the throne.