Bold, strategic, and steady, Isabella of Castile navigated an unlikely rise to the throne and ushered in a golden age for Spain. Looking Like a Queen“La Virgen de la Mosca,” painted in the ...

Here the queen wears the crown of Castile and Leon ... To her credit, Downey does far more in this biography than focus on Isabella. She also uses her subject to provide a broad, albeit none ...

Enrique IV entering Segovia in the company of his half-sister Isabella of Castile, after being proclaimed princess of Asturias, painting by Juan García Martínez (1862) / photo public domain on ...

Charity was always present in this woman,” the prelate explained. Archbishop Gil, who referred to Isabella of Castile as “this holy woman,” predicted that “history will also value all the ...

Spain's Roman Catholic bishops are to petition the Pope to canonise Queen Isabella of Castile, one of history's most vilified monarchs. Senior churchmen led by Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco ...