Hello guys! English, it is not my motherly language, I'm French so I apologize if there are some mistakes. Don't hesitate to tell me where they are so that I can improve.

I hope my little story will please you..

Sincerely
Marina Ka-Fai

Wept so often

' Why are you here ?'

' I have come to see my daughter. That should not surprise you.'

Catherine's ghost made its way to face Henry. She was calm and regal. Just like when she was still alive. She had been separated from her daughter Mary for four years, from the " puta de lujo" 's rise in 1532 until her death in 1536. From this event, she was free. Free to see her only surviving child, her beloved Mary.

' Go away shade. Go away Catherine.' Henry almost begged

' You sent me away before. Though I loved you.'

Her voice was sad. They loved each other for two decades. Then, " la puta de lujo" arrived. Henry made her suffer. That shameful trial, the separation from Rome, her exile to the More, her destitution... She looked at her daughter.

' You haven't always been kind to her. I have wept so often to see her alone, abandoned by her father.'

She saw everything. Her daughter, daughter and granddaughter of kings, reduced to be a maid to her father's true bastard daughter, born from the wench. The threat upon her life if she did not sign the Oath. That horrible blackmail: her father's love against her legitimacy. The neglect about her life, growing up an old maid while she was beautiful and wanted. Her brief and sad affair with the Duke of Bavaria. Chapuys' death. She faced that all alone. Henry was not there to comfort her. Everytime Mary cried, with her ghostly fingers, Catherine tried to sweep away her tears, hoping that Mary, somehow, could feel her presence.

' But I was still your wife in God's eyes. And still am.'

Catherine was sure of it. God punished Henry. The whore's failure to produce a male heir and her downfall, poor Jane's death after the birth of her son, the brief and unhappy marriage to Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard cheating on him and the irony of his life: he started it with a Catherine, he was going to end it with a Catherine. That was God's punishment. For she was his true wife. The true queen.

Catherine of Aragon.

Queen of England.