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Rowdyboy

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3. Her treatment at the hands of the English was shameful....In the years between Arthurs' death and

Reply to Fortinbras Armstrong (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 12, 2012, 11:04 AM

Apr 2012

her marriage to Henry she was a virtual hostage with her ladies in waiting. After Henry's affair with "the Boleyn woman" took off she was again disgarded and treated as little better than a prisoner. An amazingly sad life for the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella.

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