Letter from Catherine of Aragon to be auctioned

From This is London:

A document that records one of the defining moments behind England’s split from the Roman Catholic Church will go under the hammer next month.

The letter was penned by Catherine of Aragon in 1534 as she desperately tried to cling on to her marriage to King Henry VIII.
In it the estranged noblewoman begs her nephew Roman Emperor Charles V to ask Pope Clement VII to uphold her marriage to the King.

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The article also has a picture of the letter, although not large enough to read.

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