Kateřina Aragonská: Pravá královna - 3 CDmp3 (Čte Martina Hudečková)

They were to be a support for each other and confirmed it before God. However, only she paid attention to that... Even the weather in the English port foretells that the Spanish Infanta Catalina will have to thoroughly arm herself against the harshness of the North. The marriage policy has designated the local firstborn prince Arthur Tudor as her husband, but fate has other, much gloomier plans for her. When her frail husband soon dies, the young widow catches the eye of her young brother-in-law Henry. Although he eventually takes her to the altar, Queen Catherine's (1485–1536) suffering is far from over. None of their sons are granted even two months of life, despair piles up, and the years go by. The temperamental Henry VIII, desperately longing for an heir, sacrifices warmth first, then loyalty, and eventually reason. And so, while the history of Tudor England, with the help of Anne Boleyn, rushes toward the infamous divorce that will shake the customs of early modern Europe, the fading Catholic queen fears not only for her survival under the conditions dictated by male will or for the legitimate claims of her only daughter but also for the salvation of her own soul... The first volume of the Six Tudor Queens series presents a dramatic epic about an internally honest ruler, whose holy patience sharply contrasts with her actions...