Catalina de Aragón, palacio de Lambeth - Category:Portraits of Catherine of Aragon - Wikimedia Commons

This Michael Sittow painting of Mary Magdalene is thought to be a portrait of Catherine. It was painted when she was still a Spanish princess, before going to England to marry Prince Arthur in 1501. She is probably no older than 15.

As I have been working my way through the Tudor era I have been doing further research on the puzzling white band that appears in many early Tudor portraits. The result is this rather long post. I …

Catherine of Aragon is frequently misportrayed on screen. Here, we rank casting choices based on how well they resemble the real historical figure.

Katherine of Aragon

Above you can see three different portraits of Henry VIII, painted at three different points in his life by three different artists. However, not all portraits from the Tudor era are as easy to identify or are as definitively identified as these ones. In fact, there are a great deal of paintings f...

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