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coathequeen:

“Like her formidable mother, Katherine would not flinch from her duty. It is romantic
nonsense to imagine her a patient Griselda, a saintly being quietly waiting for her
husband to come to his senses while she stoically endured mental torment and anguish.
It is also grossly to underestimate her. Katherine was brave, feisty, a ferocious and
tenacious warrior for what she believed to be right. If Henry would not cease from
risking his own soul and the souls of the people entrusted by God to his care, and if he
continued to threaten the very existence of God’s Church, then she must and would
oppose him every inch of the way. A lioness indeed.”

–  Julia Fox, Sister queens: the noble, tragic lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile