Katherine the Virgin Widow is an engaging historical novel from the pen of Jean Plaidy. Katherine is the Spanish Infanta, youngest daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain. At the age of just fifteen she is sent to England to be the bride of Arthur, Prince of Wales and heir to the English throne.

But Arthur's health is fragile, and when he loses his battle with fever, ominous shadows are cast over Katherine's future. Though promised in marriage to Henry, her handsome and bold younger brother-in-law, there is to be no smooth path to the wedding altar for the young Katherine of Aragon.

During these years of her widowhood Katherine is excluded from life at court and must confront a tenuous existence . Homesickness, political plotting and personal tragedy in the form of Queen Isabella's death and the mental instability of her sister Juana are just some of the factors which shape her life and destiny.

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