![]() Gregory's skill for creating suspense pulls the reader along despite the historical novel's foregone conclusion. Caught between loyalties, the mother of the Tudors must choose between the red rose and the white. Based on Philippa Gregory’s novels The Constant Princess and The King’s Curse, the show premieres on May 5 and follows Catherine of Aragon, the stunningly beautiful red-headed young princess. By alternating tight third-person narration with Catalina's unguarded thoughts and gripping dialogue, the author presents a thorough, sympathetic portrait of her heroine and her transformation into Queen Katherine. ) compellingly dramatizes how Catalina uses her faith, her cunning and her utter belief in destiny to reclaim her rightful title. Before his death, he extracts a promise from his wife to marry his younger brother Henry in order to become queen anyway, have children and rule as they had planned, a situation that can only be if Catalina denies that Arthur was ever her lover. Arthur dies young, however, leaving Catalina a widow and ineligible for the throne. She leaves Spain at 15 to fulfill her destiny as queen of England, where she finds true love with Arthur (after some initial sourness) as they plot the future of their kingdom together. As youngest daughter to the Spanish monarchs and crusaders King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Catalina, princess of Wales and of Spain, was promised to the English Prince Arthur when she was three. ![]()
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