Catherine of Aragon Henry VIII letter for New York auction
Published October 25th, 2006
A letter which the first wife of Henry VIII wrote to the Holy Roman Emperor, detailing her marital troubles, is to be sold at auction in New York.
In the letter, Catherine of Aragon, who failed to give the English king an heir, begs the emperor to ask the Pope to intervene to support her marriage.
Catherine was a Spanish princess who first married Henry’s brother, Prince Arthur, to cement an alliance against France. Arthur died shortly afterwards, and she married his brother, Henry, months after his coronation. She bore six children, three of them sons, but all died except Mary.
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