{"id":4842,"date":"2026-05-19T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:16:29","slug":"catherine-of-aragon-and-arthur-tudor-prince-of-wales-mere-married-by-proxy-in-1499","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4842","title":{"rendered":"Catherine of Aragon and Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, Were Married by Proxy in 1499"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 136px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5e\/Arthur_Prince_of_Wales_c_1500.jpg\/180px-Arthur_Prince_of_Wales_c_1500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"176\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Arthur<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 129px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b0\/Michel_Sittow_002.jpg\/170px-Michel_Sittow_002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"167\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine of Aragon<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Catherine of Aragon and Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, were married by proxy in 1499<\/strong>. He was twelve years old, and she was thirteen years old. He was supposed to become King of England when his father died. However, Arthur died first at the age of fifteen, and his brother, Henry VIII, eventually took the throne. Henry married his brother\u2019s widow, Catherine. She became the first of his six wives. How history can change as the result of a death!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine of Aragon and Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, were married by proxy in 1499. He was twelve years old, and she was thirteen years old. He was supposed to become King of England when his father died. However, Arthur died first at the age of fifteen, and his brother, Henry VIII, eventually took the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4842' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5561,2089,236,2091,5560,2090],"class_list":["post-4842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5561","tag-arthur-tudor","tag-catherine-of-aragon","tag-henry","tag-may-19","tag-prince-of-wales","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22363,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions\/22363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}