Queen Katherine and Henry VIII

[YorkieGal]

I am not a Catholic but I very much admire what I have read about Katherine and her devotion to her faith. I don't know if she was telling the truth about being a virgin at the time of her marriage to Henry VIII but from what I've read she was a strong willed, strong minded, intellectual person who was devoted to God.

I hope if I'm ever tested in the ways that she was tested, I have such perseverance.

 

[Philip_B]

I am not a Catholic but I very much admire what I have read about Katherine and her devotion to her faith. I don't know if she was telling the truth about being a virgin at the time of her marriage to Henry VIII but from what I've read she was a strong willed, strong minded, intellectual person who was devoted to God.

I hope if I'm ever tested in the ways that she was tested, I have such perseverance.

One of the challenges is that her marriage to Arthur was followed by the last public bedding in England. She was capable, competent military leader, and was indeed very religious.

 

[Ceallaigh]

I take it you mean the first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and not the fifth wife, Catherine Howard, or the sixth wife, Catherine Parr.

 

[YorkieGal]

I take it you mean the first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and not the fifth wife, Catherine Howard.

Correct!

 

[Ceallaigh]

I agree that she was very faithful through the whole ordeal.