Starz Set for Another Philippa Gregory Adaptation with 'The Spanish Princess’
The creative team behind popular period dramas The White Queen and its sequel series The White Princess are joining forces again to tell another Tudor-family story.
Premium cable Starz announced its new limited series The Spanish Princess, based on two more of best-selling author Philippa Gregory’s historical fiction novels. The series will adapt Gregory’s The Constant Princess and The King’s Curse to tell the story of King Henry VIII’s first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Much of her life will probably be familiar to viewers, as she was the woman thrown over and then divorced in favor of the infamous Anne Boleyn. But Catherine’s life story contains a great deal more drama than that.
The young Infanta of Spain was engaged as a child to Prince Arthur (son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, whom you’ll remember if you watched the The White Princess. After arriving in England as a teenager she wed, saw her new husband die a little over six months after his wedding, lived as a pauper while her parents and former father-in-law wrestled over her dowry, and eventually found herself in favor again, after receiving a dispensation which allowed her to become engaged to her former brother-in-law.
