There were five of them [Isabella’s children]. The Infanta Isabella, born fifteen years before Catherine, was the oldest, and a young lady so preternaturally solemn and unsmiling that the Queen used to refer to her, jestingly, as “my mother-in-law.”
Source:
Mattingly, Garrett. “Part I: A Spanish Princess (1485-1509); Chapter 1, Section ii” Catherine of Aragon. New York: Quality Paperback , 1990. 7. Print.
Further Reading:
Isabel I de Castilla / Ysabel I (Isabella I of Castile)
Isabella, Princess of Asturias / Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal
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