The Queen Who Said No: Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII
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The Queen Who Said No: Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII
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Catherine of Aragon is usually remembered in one word: divorced.
The first of Henry VIII’s six wives, she’s often reduced to a schoolroom rhyme or a glittering anthem in the pop musical SIX.
But Catherine’s real story is sharper, grittier, and far more important. She was a Spanish princess trained in theology, a queen who ruled as regent, a mother who turned letters into resistance manuals, and a woman who faced Henry’s gaslighting with scripture, stubbornness, and joy.
In this episode of The Forgotten, Becca explores Catherine’s journey: from triumph at the Battle of Flodden, to humiliation at Blackfriars, to exile at Kimbolton. Along the way, we’ll talk about coercive control, Tudor-style, DARVO before it had a name, and how Catherine’s life was defined not by the word divorced but by the word no.
Because Catherine of Aragon wasn’t just a cast-off wife. She was the queen who said no — and her story still resonates today.