Charlotte Hope will be playing Catherine of Aragon in the 8-episode Starz limited series The Spanish Princess. The show will peel back the layers on Catherine, who is largely forgotten about when ...

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The current iteration of The Spanish Princess premiered on Starz on May 5 and has shown steadily rising viewership. The series began with a young Catherine of Aragon’s journey to England where ...

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One of Catherine's ladies in waiting, played by Stephanie Levi-John, is a sub-Saharan African woman. "There's like one line of history in a history book about Lina de Cardonnes," says Hope.

And although Catherine's life had been a somewhat tragic one, she appeared to die peacefully on January 7, 1536 at the age of 50, per Biography.com. That said, her cause of death is up for dispute.

The story follows Catherine of Aragon, who arrives in England in the 1600s betrothed to Prince Arthur, then encounters his father, Henry VII.