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...Queen Elizabeth II remains a living link to this era, as her recent TV addresses have demonstrated....
...In the chapel Victoria, attired in black with a miniature of Albert pinned to her dress, looked down on the proceedings from the balcony-box “Royal Closet” built in 1510 for the doomed Catherine of Aragón...
...I am reminded that milk and honey heralded the marriage of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragón, which curdled. Anyway, let’s say some conventions remain standing....
...This partly explains why some of today’s most intellectually stimulating writing is now about climate change (John Gray, Elizabeth Kolbert), religion (Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Alain de Botton), science...
...(He was still married to Catherine of Aragón, the king’s daughter, which probably explains it.)...
...The 27-year-old Mexican Edgardo Aragón’s sabre-sharp video “Family Effects” reveals more about violence and masculinity in Mexico than any academic treatise....
...For the few days it takes to read it, you are in the rather mad dream that Henry VIII’s London is more real than Elizabeth II’s....
...There are also good state and private schools at primary and senior level: The Vineyard School, St Elizabeth’s Catholic Primary School and The Lady Eleanor Holles School to name a few....
...Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe, by Norman Davies, Allen Lane, RRP£30 Aragon, Burgundy, Galicia – European history is rich with states and regions that either never quite achieved...
...The fun was over by the time she was 15; her mother Catherine of Aragon was sent away by Henry, and Mary was exiled from court....
...Anne Boleyn’s dismaying baby girl, the future Elizabeth I, is unforgettably described as “an ugly purple grizzling knot of womankind”....
...In addition to four modern novels, one book of short stories and four children’s books, her 14 historical novels have concentrated on Mary Queen of Scots, Katherine of Aragon and Elizabeth I, among others...
...Abrams’s book opens with Don Juan attempting to seduce Princess Isabel, the eldest daughter of the Catholic monarchs Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile....
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