ABSTRACT
Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England (1485-1536) was the first wife of Henry VIII. She only had one surviving child (Mary) and after twenty years of marriage, Henry, desperate for a male heir and with an eye for Anne Boleyn, institutes divorce proceedings based on a disputed reading of catholic church law. She refuses to accept the idea and here Cardinals Wolsey and Campeius are trying to get her to change her mind. The Cardinals have been gently trying to persuade her and she becomes more angry, and Campeius has just said, ‘Your rage mistakes us’ (i.e. ‘In your anger you are misjudging us’).
