Catherine of Aragon

PEOPLE

Queen Mary cruelly burned over 280 heretics in her short reign—but she wasn’t the only fierce woman in Tudor England.

PEOPLE

Henry VIII's six wives did not live royal fairy tales—rather, they lived downright horror stories. These are their heartbreaking stories.

THINGS

Today, we know the six wives of Henry VIII more by the phrase "divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived" than we do by their own names and legacies. But what would they look like today?

PEOPLE

History has painted Queen Catherine Howard as a “fallen woman” whose seductions led her to the block. Sadly, her real story is even darker.

INSTANT

Catherine of Aragon is now infamous as King Henry VIII’s rejected queen—but very few people know her even darker history.

PEOPLE

Deranged Queens Facts. Every girl dreams of becoming a princess, but for vicious rulers like Joanna the Mad and Bloody Mary, life was an utter nightmare.



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