The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon / The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at / the Court of Henry VIII

Catherine represented the Imperialist interest in England.

we see with the eyes, we hear with the ears, of men who were living parts of the scenes which they describe.

He respected and perhaps admired her character; but she was not beautiful, she was not attractive, while she was as proud and intractable as her mother Isabella.

He respected and perhaps admired her character; but she was not beautiful, she was not attractive, while she was as proud and intractable as her mother Isabella.

He respected and perhaps admired her character; but she was not beautiful, she was not attractive, while she was as proud and intractable as her mother Isabella.

and as I am still substantially alone in maintaining an opinion considered heretical by orthodox historians, I have to decide in what condition I am to leave my work behind me. I

I believe the Reformation to have been the greatest incident in English history

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies; but he cannot wholly escape their influence.

Between the lines can be read the storm of popular passions, the beating of the national heart when it was stirred to its inmost dept

such as were the natural safeguards during a dangerous convulsion, or remedies of accidents incidental to hereditary monarchy.