![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of time, I can feel that Gregory’s version might have been true, because she sticks very close to the facts and only interpolates feelings and emotions to make the characters human. I do not apologize for taking great pleasure in going to visit historical places like a fly on the wall and peeking into the way those lives might have been. And while it really isn't, I felt that I would have enjoyed this novel more if I knew the stories of the other characters better. I saw that it is the first book in the Tudor Court series, so I thought it was not compulsory to read Cousin's War before that. The only thing I regret doing is starting the series from this book. When I started reading it, I thought of "constant" as loyal, but Philippa Gregory described so many more cases to apply that word to Catherine. The title of the story fits really well too. She seemed real to me and it made me like her. The writer created a very true-to-life portrait of Catherine. And it is very unusual to me and therefore very interesting. Maybe that's because they have preserved monarchy till our days. I like history, and English history especially. But things don't go as they were planned, so Catherine has to face a lot of ordeals to get what she wants. She arrives in England to become a wife to Prince Arthur, the heir to the throne. This is the story of Catherine of Aragon, the Queen of England. ![]()
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