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Terms apply. Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of IHeart Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky.

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This is Dana Schwartz, host of Noble Blood. I am off taking a brief maternity leave,

and so this week I am so excited to share one of my absolute favorite early episodes of the

show from the archives, an episode about Henry the Eighth's first wife, Catherine.

Though most people only associate her with the end of her life and Henry's attempts to divorce her,

this episode focuses mainly on Catherine's early life, back before she married Henry the 8th

when she was trapped in limbo as a bargaining chip in England

after the death of her first husband. I hope you enjoy.

After a long and treacherous journey from her cloistered life in Spain,

Princess Catherine finally made it safely to English

shores. Catherine, the daughter of the illustrious Ferdinand and Isabella, was devoutly religious,

and so as soon as her ship had landed on the English coast, she insisted on going immediately to

church. Though she was only 15,

Catherine already felt like a woman. Technically, she was already married. To Arthur, the Prince

of Wales, heir to the English throne. They had been married by proxy the year before,

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