"His name had been Henry, but I had always called him baby Hal.

He had been granted the title of Duke of Cornwall upon his birth, and he would have been the future King of England, had he lived.

His name had been Henry. And though he has passed on, I beg of you...

Please...remember my son."

Katherine of Aragon has been living in limbo for seven years while her marriage to Prince Harry of England is being arranged. Seven years in which she has been left to starve and fend for herself while Henry VII and her father Ferdinand de Aragon squabble over her marriage dowry.

But when Henry VII dies and Prince Harry is proclaimed the new King of England - Henry VIII - Katherine's future is bright once again, her troubles and sorrows undoubtedly in her past.

But her brush with grief is anything but over, and in the months that follow her coronation, Katherine is faced with unimaginable heartache and loss.

A loss so disastrous it will reshape history as we know it.