Why do you keep portraying Catherine with dark hair? She was described as being fair haired and blue eyed.

Divorced Beheaded died divorced Beheaded survived.

@@Sally_30 she was a Light brown that sorta Looked reddish.

Catherine of Aragon to Anne Boleyn “Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn I'm begging of you please don't take my man Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn Please don't take him just because you can Your beauty is beyond compare With silky locks of raven hair With ivory skin and eyes of smoldering black Your smile is like a breath of spring Your skin is soft like summer rain And I cannot compete with you Anne Boleyn He talks about you in his sleep And there's nothing I can do to keep From crying when he calls your name Anne Boleyn And I can easily understand How you could easily take my King But you don't know what he means to me Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn I'm begging of you please don't take my man Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn Please don't take him just because you can You could have your choice of men But I could never love again He's the only one for me Anne Boleyn I had to have this talk with you My happiness depends on you And whatever you decide to do Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn I'm begging of you please don't take my man Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn Please don't take him even though you can Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn”

@@klassicalmuzik ... Really??

She would not be an unfortunate woman with physical abuse.

The stuart dynasty might be on the throne way faster ?? Mary the first would had no heirs, elizabeth would not born as a legitimate heir at least. And mary stuart would had took the throne

I think the other question is, can we imagine how different history would have been if Mary's older brother hadn't died as baby. If he had lived, then maybe Henry wouldn't have felt so much need to change everything in his pursuit of a son.

The Tudor Dynasty would've ended, And England would have became A Satellite State for the Habsburgs.

@@clao4058 I think Mary the First could have children if she Henry's heir. I guess she just did have any child because she was old to conceive when she married. If she was the heir since the beginning, it's sure Henry would marry her when she was a teen. Probably it wouldn't be with Phillip, maybe with her cousin James V of Scotland or Henry II of France or a Habsburg prince/archeduke.

Truth. Maybe they should have waitef instead of keeping trying consecutively...

@@aborgeshonorato I don't think that would have occurred to them in those days and I also don't think Henry was a particularly considerate husband.

@@dianekeane7740 I agree with you on the fact that he was a womanizer. Thank you for comenting 👍 Actually I feel for the Queen Catherine and also later Mary. They really suffered.

Plus the fact that she DID have a few sons but they died.

I think it broke him, mentally. officially 5 children were lost(which would alresdy be greatly traumatic), but there could have been more than 5.

Indeed, she was raised to be a future royal wife and when she was engaged to arther she was a great catch, a daughter of 2 powerful ruling monarch's, but when arther died it changed, Henry 7 chaged his mind but kept Catherine as his prisoner in case they invaded and then pressured Henry 8 to marry her, Henry didnt want to but to make a alliance with a grow thing super power... he had no choice

She was a faithful, totally devoted partner to Henry...and he threw that gift away. What happened to her, and their daughter...was beyond despicable. Mary was a dutiful daughter that deserved a loving, and nurturing Father...and History has been so unkind to that child/teenager/mature woman...and then....to want love...to want a child..to want a loving husband...and she gets a user philanderer, in the likes of Philip of Spain. She only wanted love, as she gave love,....and finally (outrageously) dies of Ovarian Cancer. I have always prayed that she would find Karma in the Resurrection. Both she and her mother. To this day, both their graves visited by those that knew both her mother and herself as such victims of their day and age...leave flowers, and notes of love for them...to this very day. They both deserve at least that....RIP, both of you!

She wasn't very pretty.

@@RoseRose-bn1js My mom was the most beautiful

@@misrosefromeverywhere3673 Of course your mother is beautiful

Sadly it was quite common during those days as they didn’t have proper medicine

Still happens now sadly

Yep

My mom did. It was very sad.

💔💔💔💔🥺

That was the beliefs at the time though so they are using how people back then would have seen it

@@TheFellowshipoftheCats yeah I got it..

It is so obvious why, but you have chosen to get triggered.

Because as we all know these were times of science and practical common sense.

Sadly they were not aware of the role men play in gender. Sadly their are places in 2020 that still blame women for not having sons

Ironically, judging from her portraits, I thought Catherine of Aragon was King Henry's most beautiful wife.

I agree with both of you 💕💕

@@Elly3981 Thank you :)

@@Elly3981 I agree. her protrait was soft and elegant and all in all I think she was a timeless beauty

@@lindleloverwatterson3484 Henry didn't deserve her. He didn't deserve any of his wives. The man was a disgusting, evil worm.

Nah. He suffered the injury after marrying Anne Boleyn (after Katherine's death). He was mistreating Mary from way before that

@@tasi4372 the accident of 1536 was not his first accident, the jousting accident of 1524 he was struck in the head by a jousting lance after this incident he would be plagued by migraines for the rest of his life

@@parissanders1800 and most likely had a traumatic brain injury/damage that altered his personality. Still happens to this day.

It's not that Henry VIII lacked imagination but rather as this video points out every time a woman tried to rule England prior it ended in a civil war. Henry VIII's ancestor, Henry I, tried to make his daughter his successor and went as far as to make all the nobles swear loyalty to her but they still took the throne from Matilda after Henry I's death. It led to a civil war called the anarchy that lasted nearly 20 years. Henry VIII's father had finally stabilized the country after another similarly brutal civil war (that was partially started because Margaret of Anjou tried to rule cause her husband was nuts), so Henry VIII was keen to keep the country from going through another civil war and keep the dynasty going.

@@sliverscreencritic Nah he just didn't want his house name erased.

@@shukhada6664 both because matilda and he afraid his dynasty goes extinct and England rule by Habsburg

The end of the Tudor dynasty

@@oshb5559 I never understood that, suppose the King makes a daughter the queen and she marries into another royal house and they had two sons wouldn't it be possible to have the firstborn rule his father's Kingdom and the younger one his mother's, I get that none of this is guarateed to happen and looks like a fairy tale but it was possible

@@valkyrie-in-black-coat actually happened with isabel of castile

They didn't even mentioned that infection after her first child was born. Even thought it is probably why later on she lost more kids without apparent reason.

And besides that, Christians don't live under the Law of Moses. So that rule was utterly moot.

Plus he has an affair with Anne Boleyn's sister so that would have been considered the same as marrying his brother's wife.

Men have always used religion to their advantage. All religions have been by men and for men. And all religions have treated women badly.

The bible is full of contradictions. Anyone can find any convenient excuse for doing what they want just by reading that book.

@@8698gil you make bold statements without evidence to support it. You’re just as hypocritical as those twisting scripture!

Only some of them were not playboys ;3

Oof

Did you see her in live?

@@politreg4356 Isabel & Catherine were also Lancasters. They were of light hair & light eyes, the dark hair came from Ferdinand but Catherine was known for taking after her mother.

It is seen in her portraits. She had it from her English royal ancestors - As she was double descended from John of Gaunt and had a better claim to the English throne than he did.

@@politreg4356 yes. She's been my best friend while in kindergarten

Original description of Catherine says her hair was red-gold. And even some credible historians rewritten it as auburn into their books, but obviously it was supposed to mean reddish-gold. Golden strawberry blond hair are obvious in SIttow' potraits. (those not photoshoped after spanish princess aired). Also one by Sittow is not photoshopped but has discoloured varnish on and hence hair looks way more ginger than it should. By the way I don't at all agree with 'reidentification' by Mr Mathews, who claims it is Mary Rose Tudor. French hood with frill ending so low and he claims it was from 1510s? Clueless!

Catherine of Aragon also had English blood. She was the descendant of John of Gaunt's first two wives, Blanche of Lancaster and Constanza of Portugal.

@@lingabella3547, haha, well there are many redheads in Northern Spain. In fact the most genetically similar to Irish in Europe are Asturians, in the North of Spain. Queen Isabel, was blonde. There are many blonde people in Spain. Stereotypes are always due to either ignorance or oversimplification

The term is strawberry blond. It's hair in between red and blond. In her case her hair were trully golden.

Exactly. Many of my friends who are Hispanic are blonde .

It could have been a male genetic condition

@@sunshinecarmen2028 Most likely infection of uterus after the 1st stillbirth(which documentary didn't mention at all) was the root cause for loosing rest of the children.

I'm pretty sure the actor played Billy in Eastenders

They still are!!! Like Queen Elizabeth1, Victoria & Queen Elizabeth #2

@MUHAMMAD SHEHARYAR *Ahem* Queen Elizabeth the 1st?

Yes

No. Not Catherine of Aragon. She was sent away and she was kept away from her daughter until her death. Henry divorced her but it really was not since the pope did not approve the divorce.

Raquel M ??? She’s asking for Catherine hair color, not Catherine Howard’s. Catherine of Aragon hair was blonde-Ish/reddish.

Blonde-Ish mixture with a reddish mix.

@@brooke6549 Quite true! A lot of people from Spain are very light. My grandmother came from Barcelona, Spain. She had light blond hair, ice-blue eyes, and white skin.

Me

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WAYYYYYYYYYYYY there's No no no no no no no no no way!

It was intended, he was well versed in the Bible, but this is Protestant view on history because they always forget the the Bible also said to have the brother marry his brother’s widow. Catherine was a Catholic and the English hate Catholics.

@@MrSophire right. Since there was that verse, you wonder if he just ignored it because Leviticus more or less served his purpose and the clergy were too afraid to bring up the verse that legitimized his marriage to Catherine

@@MrSophire at the time of the divorce the whole of England was Catholic so you are wrong - the English did not hate Catholics then.

@@jen9774 the history writers were protestants

That was Katherine's daughter Mary. She had the phantom pregnancy, not Katherine of Aragon

@@faithallen5326 It wasn't a phantom pregnancy it was a stillbirth at 6 months. Doctors told her it was a twin pregnancy and one baby was still alive but they were wrong... The continued swelling of her belly after the stillbirth turned out to be an infection... not a twin baby. Mary was never pregnant to begin with. Her swollen belly was also most likely an infection but could of also been an ovarian tumor.

@Levi Blevins this is what happens when you try to pretend you’re a historian and you end up looking like an idiot... read a book on occasion

@@tuckerrandle9239 Ummmm.... I did read this in a book... By Claire Ridgeway. She has a Masters Degree in English history and has written several books on the Tudors... and created the Anne Boleyn Files and The Tudor society KZfaq channels. She spent years pouring over original documents from contemporary witness accounts to gather research for her books.... They are almost exclusively what she relies on for historical accuracy. Sooooo.... Gonna take her word on the account she gives of Katherine's first failed pregnancy.

@Levi Blevins then she’s smarter than all the other historians who have spent just as much time studying and researching the Tudor dynasty... or she’s mistaken... or you’re confusing your monarchs

@Zhou • Meigui he made it himself

@Zhou • Meigui it’s a parody on joleen

Except that Catherine was said to be more beautiful

@@tudorprincess9169 Exactly!

well, daddy weren't you there, when I gave birth to Mary "Hi baby~" (daughters are so easy to forget)

@@sophiaerinnmape1678 Your just so full of Sh- must think that I’m naïve

@@hamiltonhyla I won’t stand down won’t shh and no I’ll never leeeaaaave

@@rhearaj4786 You must think that I'm crazy You wanna replace me baby

@@rosemagic3987 there’s no no no no no no no way

In England the last queens to rule without a king beside them sent England in civil war. Plus Son's carry the name. Daughters get adopted into anothers family. Religiously speaking once you as a woman marry your husband you are adopted into his family and thus take his name. Nowadays women can keep their names or hyphen. Back then women were given into the care of her husband and his family.

A combo of sexism and the patriarchy to make it short. England had male primogeniture meaning that the eldest son came to the throne.

@@sliverscreencritic it was because without a male heir the Tudor dynasty would have ended and England would have became a satellite state to whoever foreign ruler married his eldest daughter Mary if he considered mary his heir apparent

They look nothing alike

I thought that too and no one else said it! Xx

So ? This is not Anne of Austria-This is the dog Catherine.

That too didn't help, but the documentary skipped 6+weeks long infection in belly after her 1st stillbirth. The main cause of problems to come was that infection. It damaged her uterus.

Strawberry blond. With hair like liquid gold.

Isabella of France married to Edward II and Margaret of Anjou married to Henry VI. I think those are the ones they are talking about because at some point this two wives took over ruling for their husbands and both times did't end up well.

@@josyshen2535 Matilda, daughter of Henry I was before them. Her reign resulted in war.

@@gidzmobug2323 I know so I think Matilda, Margaret of Anjou and Isabella of France are the 3 women they are talking about I think.

the queendom

You are delusional and lack insight if you really think that..

@@mcmilk107 She’s right. Had Henry recognised Mary as his heir, history would have been much different and he most likely wouldn’t have annulled his marriage to Katherine of Aragon. The reason why Henry didn’t give her The Princess of Wales title and tried to get a male heir, was because not only did the Tudors have a weak claim to the throne but also he believed that people wouldn’t want a woman ruling the country and would have started a civil war in favour of Yorkist claimants. All of which didn’t happen neither to Mary nor Elizabeth. Henry was too paranoid.

She was the only women who gave him a boy Catherine he let her go escape she was engage to another man in love Henry kidnap her

Katherine was a foreign princess, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabel. Her family in the Spain would have raged war if she was beheaded.

@@iceprincess1898 @PrincessWithInnerBeauty And also her nephew was the most powerful man in Europe, the Holy Roman Emperor. If he executed KoA, Henry will not be just at war with Spain, but also against Holy Roman Empire.

Because Charles V would've come down on him like a tonne of bricks if he executed his aunt.

Katherine was not 1O years older than henry, she was just 5 years older. And Henry didn't have to marry her. He wanted to marry her. It was a love match, not an arranged marriage. Four years before he married Katherine, Henry's father broke this son's engagement with Katherine and had Henry engaged to Eleanor of Austria, who was even more powerful than Katherine because she was part of the Spanish royal family, and she was also the granddaughter of the holy roman emperor, whereas Katherine was only part of the Spanish royal family. Henry would have gotten 2 major alliances by marrying Eleanor, but he only wanted Katherine. When his father died, Henry broke his engagement with Eleanor and married Katherine. I agree with you that he genuinely loved her and Mary. If only she'd had a son 😭😭

She was 5 or 6 years older than him at the time that they got married in 1509 Henry 8th was 17 turning 18 and catherine of Aragon was 23 years old

Catherine was 51/2 years older than Henry, and a Papal Dispensation was needed, as Catherine had been married to Arthur, Henry's older brother. The Pope would've probably granted an annulment, had he not been under the control of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, and was Catherine's nephew. Henry made himself Head of the Church of England, to secure his annulment(not divorce). In fact, in Henry's eyes, only his marriages to Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr, were legal.

Mathilda, Isabella of France, and Margaret of Anjou.

He had a rare blood condition that made it near impossible for his wives to carry children to full term.

No, not at all.

My teachers American history books 1982 Catherine escape because she had a boy he let her go My teacher miss Duffy rest in peace