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Philippa gregory war of the roses series5/22/2023 ![]() The King and Queen have arranged marriages for all of their children, in the hope of forming political alliances, and Juana finds herself married against her will to Philip, Duke of Burgundy, son of the Holy Roman Emperor. Juana is the third of five children born to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, whose joint rule has brought together the two Spanish kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. Juana’s story is less well known (outside Spain, at least) and less often covered in historical fiction, but just as interesting and tragic. ![]() ![]() I think most of us will have heard of Juana’s younger sister, Katherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII who was divorced so that the King could marry Anne Boleyn, breaking away from Rome in the process. The first of our two queens is Juana of Castile, also known as Juana la Loca (‘the mad’), whose life is retold in fictional form in The Last Queen by C.W. I certainly wouldn’t, based on the stories of the two 16th century queens I’ve been reading about recently! ![]()
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