{"id":588,"date":"2009-03-31T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T16:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2009-03-31T09:41:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T16:41:49","slug":"last-spanish-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/2009\/03\/31\/last-spanish-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Spanish Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Last Queen, C.W. Gortner, 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand and Isabel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ferdinandisabella.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ferdinandisabella.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ferdinandisabella\" width=\"363\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Juana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/juanalaloca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/juanalaloca.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"juanalaloca\" width=\"340\" height=\"462\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-633\" \/><\/a> Catherine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/catherinearagon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/catherinearagon.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"catherinearagon\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-634\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A historical novel chronicling the life of Juana la Loca (the mad), daughter of Isabel and Ferdinand, and sister of Catherine of Aragon (first wife of Henry VIII). Juana&#8217;s marriage to a Habsburg, Philip of Flanders, and her becoming Queen of Spain through circumstance of deaths in her family, led her children to rule both the Habsburg empire and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Juana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/philip-joanna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/philip-joanna.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"philip-joanna\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-636\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike The Later Elizabeth I of England, Juana was never to assume any kind of power in her own right despite being named successor to the throne by her mother, the powerful Isabel. This work is written from Juana&#8217;s point of view, suggesting a strong, intelligent woman surrounded by scheming men including her husband Philip and father Ferdinand, who may have feigned madness in order to survive and allow her children to come into their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Queen, C.W. Gortner, 2008 Ferdinand and Isabel Juana Catherine A historical novel chronicling the life of Juana la Loca (the mad), daughter of Isabel and Ferdinand, and sister of Catherine of Aragon (first wife of Henry VIII). Juana&#8217;s marriage to a Habsburg, Philip of Flanders, and her becoming Queen of Spain through circumstance &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/2009\/03\/31\/last-spanish-queen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Last Spanish Queen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}