How Katherine of Aragon Has Influenced Today

Katherine has influenced us all in one way or another -and you probably don't even realise it! From food to education Queen Katherine has changed England's Course forever...

What:	Explanation:
Education, Learning, and Women's rights	By Katherine's influence, intelligence, example, and her donating large sums of money to several colleges, learning in women became fashionable and popular and popular in England, helping women's rights by equalizing women more to men.
A Great Example	Katherine is an ideal role model to anyone. She was gracious, kind, beautiful, witty, intelligent, a linguist, musician, and great scholar, she was pious, humble, loyal, and behaved with grace to everyone even her husband's mistresses.She was very forgiving and was adored by the English people.
Katherine as Regent	While Henry was away at war,he named Katherine as the Queen Regent of the Kingdom. This showed how much faith he had in her. Katherine addressed the army while they prepared for an invasion by the Scottish army. They won the battle and Katherine showed that a women could excel in her role as Regent. She led some of the troops North, while pregnant! Just like her mother Isabella, another great Warrior Queen, did.
Alms, Compassion, and Diversity	She also took time and effort to provide the poor with money, clothes, food, and fuel in the winter, She also took time and effort to provide the poor with money, clothes, food, and fuel in the winter, and she was a great alms giver even when she had little money to survive on herself. She made shirt for the poor and Holy Orders, even when she was close to death.
Food	It was Katherine who introduced salad to England! Although unlike today's salad Tudor Salad was eaten hot not cold.

Henry's adviser	Katherine had the most influence of Henry's wives over his running of the country. During their early years in marriage he would ask her advice on everything, and she was happy to give it. Henry did this because he knew how intelligent she was and how much she had learned watching her parents, Isabel and Ferdinand, arguably the greatest Monarchs Spain has ever seen, and whats more he was madly in love with her.
Women's Rights - The First Queen	Katherine was the mother of the very first Queen Regnant of England, Queen Mary I, who kept the throne despite plots - proving what her grandmother had taught Spain and her mother had shown England as Regent, that a woman could hold a throne as well as any man. t is unfortunate and unfair that Mary is remembered only for her burning of 270 people, which is much less than her father King Henry VIII or her half-sister Elizabeth I, when she also gained alliances with Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, improved England's trade links with Russia and Spain, and much more. Queen Mary honoured her mother by having Queen Katherine's marriage to King Henry made and declared "good and valid" - and it has stayed that way ever since, something Katherine would have dearly wished for, and by having several portraits commissioned of her mother.