The loyal princess

Name: The loyal princess
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Autor: Philippa Gregory

Coleção: Tudor

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Sinopse

The image of Catherine of Aragon in the reader's memory is probably that of her sad fate: the first wife of King Henry VIII, passed over in favor of the charming Anne Boleyn.

Philippa Gregory, always skilled in portraying the behind-the-scenes of the British courts, presents a Catherine very different from the pious and renegade figure crystallized over the centuries. Daughter of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, the Infanta of Spain was betrothed at age three to Prince Arthur, heir to Henry VII. The union would celebrate the strategic alliance between England and Spain, both seriously concerned about the growing power of France.

Raised from birth to assume the English throne, Catherine accompanied her parents to the battlefields. At a time when they fought alongside Rome in the crusade to defend the Catholic faith, Ferdinand and Isabella were feared throughout the world; the Infanta would witness the expulsion of the Moors from Granada, where she ended up spending part of her childhood, on the slopes of the sumptuous Alhambra Palace. And, from a young age, Catherine had a single certainty: "I was born a princess, destined to be queen... and I know my duty." At 15, Catherine disembarked in England to finally unite with Arthur.

Accustomed to the elegance and refinement of her court, the young woman found the Tudor's phlegm strange. In love with the prince, Catherine lost her husband just five months into their marriage. True to her destiny to be the most powerful woman in a nation, Catherine decided to marry Arthur's younger brother, the spoiled Henry. Despite encountering resistance from the father and grandmother of the heir to the British throne, Catherine took the first steps toward a union that would forever change the course of a nation.

ISBN	978-850-107-742-4
Tradutor	Ana Luiza Dantas Borges
Altura	230 mm
Largura	155 mm
Profundidade	26 mm
Lançamento	28/09/2007
Páginas	448

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Sobre o autor

Philippa Gregory

Além de se dedicar a escrever romances históricos, Philippa Gregory é reconhecida por seus programas de rádio e televisão. É Ph.D. em literatura do século XVIII pela Universidade de Edimburgo e autora de, entre outros, A rainha branca e A princesa branca, adaptados para séries de TV, A rainha vermelha, A senhora das águas, A filha do Fazedor de Reis, A rainha domada e A irmã de Ana Bolena. Este último ganhou as telas do cinema como A outra, uma superprodução estrelada por Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson e Eric Bana. Philippa Gregory mora com a família no norte da Inglaterra. Seus livros já ultrapassaram a marca de 15 milhões de exemplares vendidos no mundo.