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The Spanish Princess

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102 feature instances
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The Spanish Princess	type	TVTItem
The Spanish Princess	label	The Spanish Princess
The Spanish Princess	page	TheSpanishPrincess
The Spanish Princess	comment	The Spanish Princess is a Starz historical drama series adapted from Philippa Gregory's novels The Constant Princess and The King's Curse. The show centers around Catherine of Aragon's time in England during the latter reign of Henry VII. It premiered on May 5th, 2019. The remaining eight episodes were broadcast in 2020.It is a sequel to The White Princess and by extension The White Queen.The titular Spanish Princess, Catherine (Charlotte Hope), arrives in England to marry Prince Arthur (Angus Imrie) to connect the fledgling Tudor dynasty to her parents' Spain. But when Arthur dies, Catherine's already tenuous position at court is cast into doubt, and forces conspire to keep her from marrying his younger brother Henry (Ruairi O'Connor).
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The Spanish Princess / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
The Spanish Princess / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Meg Tudor for all her frustration with her husband is crushed when he dies in battle, she tearfully describes him as the father of her sons and "her best friend".
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The Spanish Princess / int_117c6f30	type	Old Man Marrying a Child
The Spanish Princess / int_117c6f30	comment	Old Man Marrying a Child: Margaret Beaufort recalls to her granddaughter how she was married at the age of twelve, and had only had one period before falling pregnant. Henry VII nearly marries Catherine, overstepping his son.
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The Spanish Princess / int_11ad560b	type	Control Freak
The Spanish Princess / int_11ad560b	comment	Control Freak: Lady Margaret has a surprising number of people on her payroll in secret, including Catherine and Arthur's entire household staff. She jumps to become regent the first chance she gets.
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The Spanish Princess / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Spanish Princess / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Catherine of Aragon, Prince Arthur, and Prince Henry have all been aged up at least a decade for the show here, probably because teenagers in an arranged marriage isn't going to go over well with modern audiences.
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The Spanish Princess / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
The Spanish Princess / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Arthur and Harry. In addition to Arthur being the Blue Oni to Harry's Red Oni, Arthur is annoyed that Harry has written love letters to Catherine in Arthur's name. Harry is envious of Arthur being the heir to the throne, and also wants Catherine.
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The Spanish Princess / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Spanish Princess / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Just try not to drool when you see Henry VIII shirtless...
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The Spanish Princess / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
The Spanish Princess / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: The ending of the middle ages.
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The Spanish Princess / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
The Spanish Princess / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: Zigzaged with Bessie Blount and Anne Boleyn towards Catherine of Aragon. Compared to other dramatized portrayals, Anne Boleyn is not mean-spirited towards Catherine of Aragon in the Spanish Princess. Catherine of Aragon also refuses to kill King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn when she finds out they are a couple.
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The Spanish Princess / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
The Spanish Princess / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: Just watch Stafford's head fly!
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The Spanish Princess / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
The Spanish Princess / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: Or, rather Like Mother Like Daughter. In both The White Princess and the one occasion she's seen on a horse in this series, Elizabeth of York does not ride side saddle, as would be custom for a woman. When she leaves for Scotland Margaret is not riding side saddle, just like her mother.
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The Spanish Princess / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Spanish Princess / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Or, rather, Only Sane Child! Princess Mary, in Episode 7, is the only person basically thinking with her brain... and she realises that Harry is in love with Catherine, so outs his location to her.
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The Spanish Princess / int_2924864d	type	Token Minority Couple
The Spanish Princess / int_2924864d	comment	Token Minority Couple: Lina and Oviedo, the only two black characters on the show, get married. Justified, as their historical counterparts married.
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The Spanish Princess / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
The Spanish Princess / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Margaret Beaufort gets thoroughly broken in the season 1 finale. First her Privy Council and her own grandson turn against her after she frames Dudley for her illegal taxation and has him executed without a trial. Then she tries yet again to stop Henry's wedding to Catherine, which backfires on her and alienates Henry even further. Finally, as she's lying sick in bed, she gets one last "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Maggie Pole before dying alone, hallucinating of the boy princes whom she had murdered.
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The Spanish Princess / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
The Spanish Princess / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: Catherine speaks in English even when talking to her mother in Spain, and among her Spanish ladies-in-waiting. Justified in that Catherine is training to be the future Queen of England and integrate into the English court. Philip and Joanna of Castile speak almost perfect English, with no attempt by the English to afford them the use of a lingua franca such as French or Latin as Margaret Beaufort did when meeting Margaret. Joanna immediately talks to Catherine in English even when they are in private and could easily speak in Spanish. Lina almost always speaks to Rosa and Oviedo in English, even when they are talking about matters that they might not want an English eavesdropper to find out.
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The Spanish Princess / int_2e77c628	type	The Baby of the Bunch
The Spanish Princess / int_2e77c628	comment	The Baby of the Bunch: Catherine for the Spanish royal family, and Princess Mary for the Tudors.
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The Spanish Princess / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
The Spanish Princess / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: Joanna of Castile. Subverted as it is revealed that Joanna's temperament stems from her mother abusing her, her father and husband trying to usurp her throne, as well as her husband's many affairs. Joanna herself considers Isabella to be an example of this. Catherine concedes that Isabella could indeed be cruel, torturing Joanna for her lack of piety. Elizabeth of York acts as this for Catherine. Margaret Beaufort is this for everyone.
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The Spanish Princess / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
The Spanish Princess / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: Spain and Portugal are arguably this, with the "black legend" being imposed against them due to Protestant propaganda around this time. France is potrayed as being a Worthy Opponent to England.
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The Spanish Princess / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Spanish Princess / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Lord Stafford.
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The Spanish Princess / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Spanish Princess / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Henry VIII will marry Catherine of Aragon... but it won't end well.
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The Spanish Princess / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
The Spanish Princess / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Henry VII's portrayal is not too inaccurate. The great misleading element is the suggestion that he genuinely had little to do with his infamous taxes and that it was Margaret Beaufort who enforced such policies. While it is genuinely debatable how much Empson and Dudley were simply implementing unpopular policies or unchecked corrupt ministers, their decisions certainly had Henry's approval. Henry's stinginess earned him the nickname "Tight-Fisted Tudor" and why he was little missed when he died. Catherine of Aragon was not at all respectful to the body of James IV. The Scottish King's body was presented to her and she wanted to present his head to Henry VIII. She was dissuaded from doing so by the court and settled for his bloody cloak.
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The Spanish Princess / int_42299519	type	Same Story, Different Names
The Spanish Princess / int_42299519	comment	Same Story, Different Names: Zig zagged. The Spanish Princess takes more creative liberties than the Tudors and Wolf Hall. It's also told from Catherine of Aragon's point of view, rather than King Henry VIII in the Tudors or Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall.
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The Spanish Princess / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Spanish Princess / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Harry wrote love letters to Catherine as Prince Arthur. It started as a joke, but he ended up falling in love with her. Also for Catherine, as she seduces Harry so that she will be Queen of England, only to end up wanting to be with Harry more than be Queen.
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The Spanish Princess / int_4bc90fbc	type	GoodVSGood
The Spanish Princess / int_4bc90fbc	comment	Good vs. Good: The Catholic vs Protestant conflict. While most of the Catholic characters are heroes and good people, they seem to turn a blind eye to some of the abuses of the Catholic Church (such as the Crusades and the Spanish Inquistion) and the sometimes ruthless enforcement of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. The Protestant characters are potrayed as being more ambitious and irreverent, but not bad. They are more aware of the abuses, but they are generally not malicious towards the Catholic characters. The Protestants do end up exagerrating the abuses that took place in Spain and Portugal however which leads to the "black legend." Truth In Televison. Katherine of Aragon herself regards her mission as a holy and divine Catholic crusade, but she does not kill the Protestants. She also intervines on the May Day Riots and tries to save Lord Stafford. Lina intervenes before Katherine of Aragon goes too far, pointing out the errors of her ways. See What the Hell, Hero? and Nice Job Breaking It, Hero, below.
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The Spanish Princess / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Spanish Princess / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Sure, Catherine has won and she and Harry are about to get married... but he suspects she's lying about not having had sex with his brother Arthur and she suspects he is lying about not having slept with her sister Joanna. The second season have this as well. Henry will dump Catherine for Anne Boleyn, and while they won't have any sons, their only daughter will be one of England's most powerful monarchs. But consequently, Spain will become one of England's rivals. The tension between Catholics and Protestants will only get much worse after king Henry VIII's death, with even the more relatively tolerant monarchs such as queen Elizabeth I and king Henry IV of France get swaped up in the bloody religious conflicts of the time.
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The Spanish Princess / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Spanish Princess / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Margaret Pole is walking contentedly through Thomas More's house, when the camera reveals she's seen the bloodstained rack used to torture Lutheran printers.
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The Spanish Princess / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
The Spanish Princess / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Henry's becoming one as Season 2 heads down it's foregone path.
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The Spanish Princess / int_51509ce7	type	Convenient Miscarriage
The Spanish Princess / int_51509ce7	comment	Convenient Miscarriage: Rosa miscarries just after Lord Stafford bails on her pregnancy.
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The Spanish Princess / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Spanish Princess / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: See its own article.
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The Spanish Princess / int_589661ad	type	Renaissance Man
The Spanish Princess / int_589661ad	comment	Renaissance Man: There are several. King Henry VIII, Thomas More, Meg More and Anne Boleyn among others.
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The Spanish Princess / int_6120e265	type	The Fate of the Princes in the Tower
The Spanish Princess / int_6120e265	comment	The Fate of the Princes in the Tower: Margaret Beaufort is tormented by guilt for having them killed, though one was an imposter.
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The Spanish Princess / int_6205f4e5	type	Courtly Love
The Spanish Princess / int_6205f4e5	comment	Courtly Love: The knights of Britain attempt to romance both of Catherine's retainers. Lord Stafford shows shades of this for the Queen
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The Spanish Princess / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Spanish Princess / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Margaret Beaufort attempts to execute Oviedo and Dudley for this reason.
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The Spanish Princess / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Spanish Princess / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: One of Catherine's servants tells Lady Margaret that Catherine wants to arrive in London in a "special way." Margaret snorts "How does she want to arrive? In a gilded chariot driven by the horses of St. Mark's?" Cut to Catherine arriving behind Arthur's funeral procession (drawn by those very horses) riding a simple mule.
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The Spanish Princess / int_6b1caa93	type	Adipose Rex
The Spanish Princess / int_6b1caa93	comment	Adipose Rex: Louis XII of France is incredibly fat and Henry is eating himself down the same path as Season 2 goes on.
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The Spanish Princess / int_6ee09826	type	Religious Bruiser
The Spanish Princess / int_6ee09826	comment	Religious Bruiser: Isabella of Castile fights off a band of Muslim rebels before Catherine is sent to England.
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The Spanish Princess / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
The Spanish Princess / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: The Spanish retinue insist on following their customs, for instance with Catherine taking a siesta in the afternoon, to the annoyance of the English.
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The Spanish Princess / int_7133e180	type	Heroic Seductress
The Spanish Princess / int_7133e180	comment	Heroic Seductress: Bessie Blount and Anne Boleyn.
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The Spanish Princess / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
The Spanish Princess / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Isabella marries her daughter Joanna to the Holy Roman Emperor's son, and her daughter Catherine to the heir to England. Princess Margaret is married to the King of Scotland, and Princess Mary is married to the old French King by her brother Henry VIII for the same reason.
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The Spanish Princess / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Spanish Princess / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Rosa in episode 7, who returns to Spain after suffering a miscarriage. This becomes The Bus Came Back when she returns for two episodes of Season 2.
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The Spanish Princess / int_78da8795	type	Dowry Dilemma
The Spanish Princess / int_78da8795	comment	Dowry Dilemma: Just as a marriage is agreed between Prince Henry and Catherine, her mother Isabella dies. Her father's kingdom is too poor to pay a sufficient dowry, and her sister Joanna refuses to pay. Subverted: Princess Margaret doesn't want to marry James IV of Scotland, and manages to convince her grandmother that England is too poor to pay her dowry to Scotland if they haven't received Catherine's dowry from Spain. Other political circumstances eventually push the match ahead, however.
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The Spanish Princess / int_7a97b7f4	type	Morning Sickness
The Spanish Princess / int_7a97b7f4	comment	Morning Sickness: The first sign that Rosa is pregnant is when she throws up.
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The Spanish Princess / int_7d44b017	type	Balance of Power
The Spanish Princess / int_7d44b017	comment	Balance of Power: Emperor Charles V lands is A, France is B, and England is C and sometimes D.
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The Spanish Princess / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
The Spanish Princess / int_7f080f98	comment	The future Henry VIII is introduced as a near-adult that lusts after, and conspires to 'steal' his brother's bride, to the point of impersonating his brother in order to exchange letters with her before she arrives in the country. In real life, Henry was 9-years-old when Catherine arrived, and 11 when they were betrothed in the aftermath of Arthur's death.
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The Spanish Princess / int_7f115959	type	Mother Makes You King
The Spanish Princess / int_7f115959	comment	Mother Makes You King: Margaret Beaufort qualifies as this, as in The White Queen and The White Princess, acting as Henry VII's regent during his grieving for Elizabeth of York.
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The Spanish Princess / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Spanish Princess / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The response of the English state helps Protestantism to spread. King Henry VIII will also become a figure of the Protestant Reformation (despite holding Catholic beliefs) alongside Martin Luther, John Calvin and Ulrich Zwingli. The United Kingdom will also become more closely allied with the Netherlands during this time period, to the point of being very close allies.
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The Spanish Princess / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
The Spanish Princess / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: After getting pregnant from her lover, Rosa asks Lina for help. Lina gets her a potion to cause abortion, but Rosa can't bring herself to use it, instead getting assurances by her lover that he'll care for her and the baby.
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The Spanish Princess / int_882cd7d1	type	Double In-Law Marriage
The Spanish Princess / int_882cd7d1	comment	Double In-Law Marriage: Queen Joanna's son Charles is betrothed to Princess Mary of England, and her daughter Eleanor is betrothed to Prince Henry. Meanwhile, Catherine is angling to marry her own former brother-in-law, Prince Henry.
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The Spanish Princess / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
The Spanish Princess / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Joanna claims that her brother John was their mother's favourite. Meanwhile, she claims to have been The Un-Favourite due to her atheism. This is, with a few little exaggerations, mostly Truth in Television.
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The Spanish Princess / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
The Spanish Princess / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Margaret Pole is far from enthusiastic about William Compton's interest in her.
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The Spanish Princess / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
The Spanish Princess / int_90c018ac	comment	Catherine speaks in English even when talking to her mother in Spain, and among her Spanish ladies-in-waiting. Justified in that Catherine is training to be the future Queen of England and integrate into the English court.
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The Spanish Princess / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
The Spanish Princess / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Rosa and Catherine are reunited at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
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The Spanish Princess / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Spanish Princess / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Henry VII dies, Margaret Beaufort blames Dudley for the oppressive taxation and land confiscation that she herself pushed for, accusing him of treason and executing him before he can tell anyone.
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The Spanish Princess / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Spanish Princess / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Henry VII and Elizabeth of York outlive their eldest son, Arthur. Meanwhile, Isabella and Ferdinand outlive their only son, John.
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The Spanish Princess / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Spanish Princess / int_96a33f11	comment	It is certainly a Riddle for the Ages of whether Catherine of Aragon and Arthur consummated their marriage. But Catherine insisted that it had never been consummated as early as during the reign of Henry VII when he bluntly asked if she was pregnant after Arthur's death. In this series she did consummate her marriage with Arthur and lies to the court and Harry.
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The Spanish Princess / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
The Spanish Princess / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Both Arthur and Harry are, most definitely, closer to their mother. Arthur allows her to fuss over him, which he doesn't allow others to do, and Harry is almost completely broken and barely able to function when his mother dies.
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The Spanish Princess / int_99390db0	type	Saintly Church
The Spanish Princess / int_99390db0	comment	Saintly Church: Both the Catholics and Protestants are this overall, minus a few bad apples.
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The Spanish Princess / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Spanish Princess / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Margaret quotes Leviticus to Harry to warn him about marrying his brother's wife. Harry immediately counters with a verse from Deuteronomy that supports marrying your brother's widow. Princess Mary Tudor runs to burn Protestant books, foreshadowing her role as "Bloody Mary."
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The Spanish Princess / int_9e67ec50	type	Flashback Cut
The Spanish Princess / int_9e67ec50	comment	Flashback Cut: A short clip from The White Princess of Richard of Shrewsbury yelling, "England receive my blood!" just before he's executed is shown when Queen Elizabeth reminisces about the past.
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The Spanish Princess / int_a2cc787	type	Externally Validated Prophecy
The Spanish Princess / int_a2cc787	comment	Externally Validated Prophecy: Elizabeth of York's dying prophecy that there will be no more Tudor sons if Catherine marries Prince Henry. Validated by Real Life. Oddly, Elizabeth's prophecy doesn't account for a son that was born after Henry and Catherine married: Henry VIII's son with Jane Seymour, Edward VI, who died at 15. The curse she and her mother cast, however, does account for Edward dying.
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The Spanish Princess / int_a3f6fcb0	type	Action Mom
The Spanish Princess / int_a3f6fcb0	comment	Action Mom: Isabella of Castile is a renowned swordswoman and regularly fights fully armoured on horseback.
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The Spanish Princess / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Spanish Princess / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Prince Harry, who wasn't born when The White Princess started (although he did get some notable scenes with Margaret Beaufort towards the show's end). Catherine herself can be considered this — she's mentioned in The White Princess and briefly depicted in it, and becomes the main character in The Spanish Princess.
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The Spanish Princess / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Spanish Princess / int_a8559a9f	comment	While Mary Tudor did grow old and bitter as queen, the Real Life Mary Tudor was quite kind and caring as a princess. She was treated like dirt as a little girl and had everything and everyone she loved and cared for taken away from her. While it is true that she did execute 300 Protestants as queen, at the same time most academic historians agree that there is more to her story then that.
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The Spanish Princess / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Spanish Princess / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: In one scene, Harry declares that he's "always eating" and his mother replies that he is one of the lucky people for whom "food and good wine do not alter the girth". Give it a few years and... well... by the events of the Field of Cloth of Gold, Henry is sporting a considerably more rotund midsection.
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The Spanish Princess / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
The Spanish Princess / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Arthur is mostly controlled by his fear of his family's opinions of him.
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The Spanish Princess / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
The Spanish Princess / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: Played straight for the English, who want Catherine and Arthur to have a son. Somewhat Averted for the Spanish, who have two ruling queens, Isabella and Joanna.
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The Spanish Princess / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Spanish Princess / int_b4c406a6	comment	Death by Despair: Joanna claims to Catherine that their mother died of grief for their brother John, who died seven years ago. Truth in Television according to reports from the time.
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The Spanish Princess / int_b8d3f642	type	Illegal Religion
The Spanish Princess / int_b8d3f642	comment	Illegal Religion: Oviedo is a crypto-Muslim, because all Muslims and Jews were forced to convert or leave Spain. He, like those who remained, is officially Catholic. Thus, if this were discovered, the Spanish Inquisition would try him as a heretic, carrying the death sentence if Oviedo didn't repent.
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The Spanish Princess / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Spanish Princess / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Elizabeth of York, protagonist of the previous series, only plays a supporting role this time, before dying in the third episode.
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The Spanish Princess / int_bcc9f4f7	type	Realpolitik
The Spanish Princess / int_bcc9f4f7	comment	Realpolitik: Invoked by Henry as the key reason he is marrying Catherine over his grandmother's objections: if England doesn't honor the agreement with Spain by marrying Catherine to royalty, then King Louis will take her and France gets all the Spanish gold England desperately needs. Margaret is forced to agree with the logic, especially after the King and council side with Henry.
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The Spanish Princess / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Spanish Princess / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Thomas More is brave, chivalrous, strong, intelligent, gentlemanly, talented, educated, helpful, and a loyal and loving husband and father. He is also ambitious, a social climber, supports retributive justice, anti-Protestant and a ruthless enforcer of heresy laws, persecuting Lutherans. He is more sympathetically portrayed here than in Wolf Hall, where everything good about him is twisted and phoney. Wolf Hall portrays him as a sadistic torturer, The Tudors shows him attending the burning of a heretic, Simon Fish (who actually died of an illness in prison, but six other Protestants were burned while he was Lord Chancellor). In The Spanish Princess he does not enjoy torturing Protestants. He thinks that is the only way to protect Catholics from Protestants. In real life, Thomas More allowed his daughter Meg More to marry William Roper, who flirted with Lutheranism but reverted back to Catholicism (unlike his father-in-law, Roper changed his allegiances for whoever was on the throne). He never had William Roper punished. William Roper greatly enjoyed Thomas More's company and spoke favorably of him. Thomas More was also friends with the tolerant Catholic Erasmus. Although he was responsible for the arrest of heretics, locked up at least one overnight at his house, and carried out six death sentences, More vehemently swore in the name of God (and he wasn't a man to take an oath lightly, seeing as that's why he "let" himself die for it) that he never gave any of the accused "so much as a fillup [flick] on the forehead". Claims that Thomas More personally tortured or ordered the "enhanced interrogation" of Lutherans come from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, a virulently anti-Catholic 16th-century propaganda tract. More, like Erasmus and other Humanists, wrote a great deal of criticism of the institution of the Church and the hypocrisy he saw in the powerful. But, like a lot of other orthodox Catholics at the time, he saw attacks on the foundations of Catholicism and calls to denounce the institution of the Papacy - especially in favour of giving more spiritual power to temporal princes - as a disease (of heresy) that required swift, permanent treatment, lest these ideas infect the ignorant populace and lead to violence like in the German Peasants' Revolt, where 100,000-300,000 mostly farmers and labourers were slaughtered. Many 16th and 17th century era humanists supported retributive justice. Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes did. Retributive justice was the dominant form of justice during the 16th-19th centuries.
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The Spanish Princess / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Spanish Princess / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: The White Princess may have featured both their mothers trying to tear them apart, not to mention Burgundy and half of England, but Elizabeth of York and Henry VII are, finally, at last, happily married, so happily married that Elizabeth begs her husband not to leave her in childbirth - normally, men were not allowed to be present.
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The Spanish Princess / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Spanish Princess / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Philip of Castile's string of affairs, in plain sight of his wife. Harry has slept with Catherine's sister and is implied to have slept with the whores his grandmother provided for him.
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The Spanish Princess / int_bf42f9f9	type	Lady-In-Waiting
The Spanish Princess / int_bf42f9f9	comment	Lady-In-Waiting: Lina and Rosa, for Catherine.
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The Spanish Princess / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
The Spanish Princess / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: While the Catholic characters are the prototypical "heroes" of the story, the Protestant Reformation side is not wrong about the abuses of the Renaissance era Catholic Church and the excessive policies of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. The directors/writers/producers seem to sympathize more with the Catholic characters while still having acknowledgement of the legitimate grievances of the Protestant characters. The Protestant characters are not really "evil" villains, either. Anne Boleyn is portrayed as ambitious, but not callous and mean-spirited. Her loyalty and love for Catherine of Aragon is genuine. Her father is portrayed as a good father who loves his family and while they support the Protestant Reformation (in secret) they are not portrayed as plotting to destroy the Catholic Church and/or kill the Catholic characters like in the Tudors.
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The Spanish Princess / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Spanish Princess / int_c145f69b	comment	Joanna of Castile. Subverted as it is revealed that Joanna's temperament stems from her mother abusing her, her father and husband trying to usurp her throne, as well as her husband's many affairs.
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The Spanish Princess / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
The Spanish Princess / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The relationship between the Catholics and Protestant characters is potrayed this way. It's not as intense as the Tudors and Wolf Hall.
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The Spanish Princess / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Spanish Princess / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: The Tudor court is potrayed this way, even more so then the Spanish and French royal courts.
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The Spanish Princess / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Spanish Princess / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: When compared to Showtime's "the Tudors" and Wolf Hall.
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The Spanish Princess / int_cedfd40a	type	Church Police
The Spanish Princess / int_cedfd40a	comment	Margaret Pole and Lina are portrayed as being more tolerant Catholics than Thomas More and Catherine of Aragon. They disagree on how to defend Catholicism from the Protestants. Margaret Pole and Lina believe that Protestants should be properly instructed, educated and listened to, while Thomas More and Catherine of Aragon take a Church Police path.
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The Spanish Princess / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Spanish Princess / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Cardinal Wolsey is arguably this. He does bad things, but he is not completly unsympathetic. Anne Boleyn is a love rival for Katherine of Aragon, but she doesn't want to see her or any of the other Catholic characters maimed and/or killed. Her relationship with Katherine of Aragon is much more lighthearted and amiable when compared to most other fictionalized potrayals. In Real Life, Anne Boleyn was a fierce and outspoken critic of the abuses going on in the Catholic Church and the excessive and sometimes violent policies of the Catholic Counter-Reformation at the time, but she was not a hardline Protestant as she is usually potrayed as. It is highly unlikely that she wanted to kill the Catholics at the Tudor royal court just because they disagreed with her. She was protecting Protestants who did not have freedom of religion in Catholic majority countries, but it is unlikely she wanted to take away freedom of religion for Catholics the way the Puritans and more fanatical Protestant fundamentalist/evangelical types did. Her relationship with most of the Catholic historical figures at the time was often sour, but that does not mean she did not care about them. She had a mostly good relationship with Cardinal Campeggio, which was mutal. She loved Thomas Howard as a member of her family.
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The Spanish Princess / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
The Spanish Princess / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Like many woman before her, and in a case of Truth in Television, Elizabeth of York goes out in an incredibly disgusting and gruesome childbirth.
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The Spanish Princess / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Spanish Princess / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Margaret Pole gives one to Thomas More and Lina to Catherine of Aragon, about their response to the spread of Protestantism. Margaret Pole and Lina are portrayed as being more tolerant Catholics than Thomas More and Catherine of Aragon. They disagree on how to defend Catholicism from the Protestants. Margaret Pole and Lina believe that Protestants should be properly instructed, educated and listened to, while Thomas More and Catherine of Aragon take a Church Police path. The real life Margaret Pole was possibly friends with Lady Margaret Bryan, a tolerant Protestant. That would explain her displeasure with Thomas More's methods. Lina is secretly married to a Muslim man who is a loyal supporter of Catherine of Aragon. She does not want to see him tortured and executed. Her parents were also possibly victims of the Spanish Inquisition, which would explain why she is afraid of Catherine of Aragon turning out like her parents. The Catholic Counter-Reformation was sometimes enforced brutally. Mary Tudor and Catherine De Medici are examples of real life Catholic monarchs who used brutal methods to suppress the Protestant Reformation.
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The Spanish Princess / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
The Spanish Princess / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: The Yorks and the Tudors. Considerably lessened since The White Queen and The White Princess due to the longstanding marriage between Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, but John de la Pole emerges as a Yorkist claimant to England.
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The Spanish Princess / int_dc57d1e6	type	Hilarious in Hindsight
The Spanish Princess / int_dc57d1e6	comment	Margaret quotes Leviticus to Harry to warn him about marrying his brother's wife. Harry immediately counters with a verse from Deuteronomy that supports marrying your brother's widow.
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The Spanish Princess / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
The Spanish Princess / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Meg, as the Scottish queen, is absolutely miserable taking care of her king's rowdy children that he refuses to round up or discipline, of which many are not even hers.
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The Spanish Princess / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Spanish Princess / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: One last time around for Margaret Beaufort, unsurprising considering her conniving portrayals in the two previous miniseries. Firstly, her incredibly hostile treatment of Catherine of Aragon is dead wrong. As noted below, her traumatic experience giving birth to Henry VII was enough to make her convince Henry VII to hold back on the marriage of Arthur and Catherine until Catherine was 16 rather than the absurd 12. Margaret wanted all of the Tudor men to treat women respectfully which surprisingly Henry VIII would do childbirth wise.note Henry would cancel travel plans for the King and Queen when Catherine and Anne were expecting. In contrast Francis I made no such accommodations or considerations for his wife. Also, while Margaret probably did not murder the Princes of the Tower, she definitely did not have Empson and Dudley executed. That was absolutely Henry VIII's decision and was his first prominent execution. While it would be interesting if Elizabeth of York had a gift of prophecy, that would definitely be mentioned by the history texts. Beyond portraying Elizabeth as responsible for the death of Edward of Warwick and Perkin Warbeck, which was Henry VII's decision, and as stated in series made to appease Ferdinand and Isabella for the marriage of Catherine to Arthur. But Elizabeth openly liked Catherine, was utterly sympathetic to her and had Catherine be a lady-in-waiting after Arthur's death. Unfortunately her favor did not last as she died soon after. It is certainly a Riddle for the Ages of whether Catherine of Aragon and Arthur consummated their marriage. But Catherine insisted that it had never been consummated as early as during the reign of Henry VII when he bluntly asked if she was pregnant after Arthur's death. In this series she did consummate her marriage with Arthur and lies to the court and Harry. Henry VIII (or more likely Wolsey) arranged for Bessie Blount to be married to a highborn lord after she had given birth to Henry Fitzroy. Not so here. The future Henry VIII is introduced as a near-adult that lusts after, and conspires to 'steal' his brother's bride, to the point of impersonating his brother in order to exchange letters with her before she arrives in the country. In real life, Henry was 9-years-old when Catherine arrived, and 11 when they were betrothed in the aftermath of Arthur's death.
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The Spanish Princess / int_e46f71c3	type	Hollywood Costuming
The Spanish Princess / int_e46f71c3	comment	Hollywood Costuming: One could write many articles about the inaccuracies in the costuming. Fortunately, the fine people over at FrockFlicks did: here and here; and here's Part 1 of an eight-part recap.
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The Spanish Princess / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Spanish Princess / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Lina is a composite of two historical Catalinas: Catalina de Cardenas, a highborn lady-in-waiting, and Catalina de Motril, a Moorish slave.
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The Spanish Princess / int_e4e80f5f	type	Greater Need Than Mine
The Spanish Princess / int_e4e80f5f	comment	Greater Need Than Mine: Margaret Pole gives rent back to her impoverished tenants, even as she falls deep into debt with the Crown following her husband's death.
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The Spanish Princess / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
The Spanish Princess / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Rosa as Id, Catherine as Ego, and Lina as Superego.
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The Spanish Princess / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Spanish Princess / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. There is more of a variety of names than its predecessors due to the focus on foreign royals with different naming conventions, but many characters still have the same names. Henry VII and Prince Henry, naturally, though the latter is often referred to as Harry. There is Princess Margaret Tudor, her grandmother Margaret Beaufort, and her mother's cousin, Margaret Pole - fortunately they're "Lady Margaret", "Meg" and "Maggie". Lina is short for Catalina, and Catherine's name is also an Anglicized version of Catalina. In season 2, Henry's circle of advisors includes Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey and Thomas Boleyn (although Wolsey is mostly referred to by his surname, and Boleyn is rarely addressed by name at all, and then usually called by his title, Wiltshire).
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The Spanish Princess / int_ef20dac5	type	Servile Snarker
The Spanish Princess / int_ef20dac5	comment	Servile Snarker: When she's told that James IV speaks several languages, Princess Margaret declares that she "wishes him the plague in all of them!"
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The Spanish Princess / int_efac5012	type	Fallen Princess
The Spanish Princess / int_efac5012	comment	Fallen Princess: Catherine's status drops after she is widowed, and again after her mother dies. Margaret Pole falls into poverty after her husband dies. Mary Tudor when she leaves court.
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The Spanish Princess / int_f48d0f54	type	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood
The Spanish Princess / int_f48d0f54	comment	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Mary Tudor's portrayal here is definitely one of the more sympathetic ones, similar to her portrayal on The Tudors. Philippa Gregory's novels are known to portray the Catholic characters in a rather sympathetic light. That and most historians today reject the one-sided Protestant/Puritan propaganda portrayal of her as one-dimensionally and/or irredeemably pure evil. While Mary Tudor did grow old and bitter as queen, the Real Life Mary Tudor was quite kind and caring as a princess. She was treated like dirt as a little girl and had everything and everyone she loved and cared for taken away from her. While it is true that she did execute 300 Protestants as queen, at the same time most academic historians agree that there is more to her story then that.
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The Spanish Princess / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
The Spanish Princess / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Catherine's role is very similar to Elizabeth Woodville in Queen and Elizabeth of York in Princess, the main character marrying the king/heir to the throne at the beginning of the series with many political enemies at court. The Catherine of Aragon/Elizabeth of York and Catherine of Aragon/Margaret Beaufort rivalries mirror the Elizabeth Woodville/Cecily Neville rivalry in Queen and the Elizabeth of York/Margaret Beaufort rivalry in Princess.
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The Spanish Princess / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: Harry's joking letters to Catherine, as he all but admits that he fell in love with her. Catherine says that he has given her power over him.
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The Spanish Princess / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
The Spanish Princess / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Thomas More is revealed to be one, certain that torturing heretics is the way to protect the Catholic Church.
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The Spanish Princess / int_f9977015	type	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
The Spanish Princess / int_f9977015	comment	My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours: Prince Harry and his grandmother argue the morality of Harry marrying Catherine, now Arthur's widow, by quoting Bible passages that support their point. The one which Margaret quotes, ironically, would later be cited by Henry himself to justify an annulment from Catherine (then divorce when that wasn't granted by the Pope).
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The Spanish Princess / int_fba4c0aa	type	Driven to Villainy
The Spanish Princess / int_fba4c0aa	comment	Driven to Villainy: Princess Mary Tudor is portrayed this way. She is also more sympathetically portrayed in The Spanish Princess than she usually is. The Tudors also portrayed her as a tragic anti-villain.
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The Spanish Princess / int_fbc54605	type	Riches to Rags
The Spanish Princess / int_fbc54605	comment	Riches to Rags: Margaret Pole is the cousin of the late queen, the niece of two kings, the daughter and sister of royal claimants. But after her husband dies, she quickly falls into poverty. The crown seizes her estate's property after she fails to pay off her debts, and she can't even afford eggs.
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The Spanish Princess / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Spanish Princess / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain are arguably this. Thomas More could count as this as well.
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