阿拉貢的凱瑟琳 (Catherine of Aragon)堅持她是唯一合法的亨利八世妻子Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife

Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife

Using a process she called “early modern Wordle,” a scholar claims to have uncovered a hidden message from Catherine of Aragon in a book of jewelry designs.

解讀亨利八世第一任妻子的反抗

使用她稱之為“早期現代 Wordle”的過程，一位學者聲稱在一本珠寶設計書中發現了來自阿拉貢的凱瑟琳的隱藏信息。

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By the end of the afternoon, Braganza thought she had figured it out in her notebook, via a trial-and-error process she compared to “early modern Wordle.” The cipher, she concluded, spelled out HENRICVS REX — Henry the King — and KATHERINE — his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

Catherine of Aragon, in a portrait from around 1515. Her marriage to Henry VIII was annulled in 1533, but she never dropped her claim to being his sole legal wife.Credit...Hulton Fine Art Collection, via Getty Images