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On this day…
On the 12th of July, 1543, King Henry VIII married his sixth and final wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
This painting of Parr was mistakenly identified as Jane Grey for generations.
On this day: Arthur, Prince of Wales met Catherine of Aragon
The prince circa 1500, and a portrait thought to be Catherine, circa 1502.
On the 4th of November, 1501, Arthur, Henry the Eighth’s older brother, met his future wife. Catherine of Aragon had been communicating with Arthur via letters written in Latin, and yet when they met they discovered they spoke the language differently and couldn’t understand each other.
Both were fifteen at the time of their meeting. They married ten days later.
The prince would die in April the following year, leaving Henry to go on to become king, as well as to marry his wife.
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