User talk:GranadasPomegranate

Hello and welcome! Feel free to edit any article you wish, you don't need my permission :) Catherine of Aragon article really needs a clean-up and I'll help you if you need me. Some users tried to turn the article into a novela summary. What came out of it was an article written in a romantic tone with too many images. I hope you can manage to do clean it up ;) Surtsicna (talk) 13:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to revert your first edit, but dates are no longer linked per Wikipedia:Manual of Style. I would also recommend filling edit summaries to inform other users what exactly you have changed. Surtsicna (talk) 14:02, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Your recent edits

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Infanta

Hi! You made me blush... :) There are much more intelligent users around here. Anyway, Catherine didn't hold the title of Infanta of Castile and Aragon in her own right. Only substantive titles (read the article) can be held in own right. The titles of Infant(a) of Castile and Infant(a) of Aragon weren't substantive titles - instead, they were courtesy titles. Catherine was styled Infanta Catherine of Castile and Aragon by courtesy, while e.g. her mother was Queen of Castile in her own right. I hope that made sense :) Surtsicna (talk) 19:07, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

To explain it better: Catherine was not infanta in her own right - she was infanta as the daughter of the King and Queen of Castile and Aragon. She was, let's say, Infanta of Castile in her mother's right and Infanta of Aragon in her father's right. I wasn't actually quick, since you asked the question a second before I opened Wikipedia, so I saw it immediately :) I'm fine enough, considering it's raining here. Who is the author of your new book? Surtsicna (talk) 20:11, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Alison Weir, she goes in to amazing deatil of events, a lot of the bookis about Catherine, also she is the only biography of the wives I have seen to include a full copy of Catherine's speech at the Legatine Court, ah it's snowing here GranadasPomegranate (talk) 20:46, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

I've seen that many users discredit Alison Weir. I myself have no special opinion of her. However, I do think that it would be best for Catherine of Aragon article to use books about Henry VIII (not books about Catherine herself) as references, because many authors of books about Catherine intentionally or unintentionally romanticise the story of Catherine's life, while the authors of books about Henry VIII tend to focus on him and therefore the story of Catherine's relationship with Henry remains very neutral and incorrupt. But that's just my opinion ;) Anyway, I'm so jelaous of you now! You can enjoy snow! I live near the Adriatic coast and it's been years since it snowed here :( Surtsicna (talk) 20:55, 2 February 2009 (UTC)