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Catherine of Aragon (December 16, 1485 – January 7, 1536) was Queen of England from June 1509 until May 1533 as the first wife of King Henry VIII. Before that, the fiercely intelligent, thoughtful and popular Catherine, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, served as the ambassador of the Aragonese Crown to England making her the first female ambassador in Europe. Following the death of her first husband Arthur, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the English throne, Catherine married her deceased husband’s brother, the new king, Henry VIII. The pair had one daughter, Mary, but the lack of a male heir infuriated her husband. By 1525 Henry had fallen for Anne Boleyn and sought to have his marriage to Catherine annulled marking the start of the English reformation. Laid out in the 1920s and 1930s during a period of rapid expansion in the area, this is one of a cluster of streets built by Davis Estates and named after prominent Tudors, a popular theme with developers at that time.
