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Article: Mucho Moorish; Novelist Philippa Gregory goes to Spain's Alhambra Palaceon a fact-finding mission ... and is spellbound by its Islamic beauty, REVIEW.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2005
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Byline: PHILIPPA GREGORY
MY POLICY of visiting any place that I write about in my novels has finally paid a dividend in life experience as well as in fiction technique.
A previous research trip took me and a faintly protesting husband to Calais, which was not an enviable location for a romantic break on a cold, damp weekend. Mary Tudor was devastated by the loss of Calais but, believe me, worse things have happened.
My current subject, though, is Catherine of Aragon and - hurrah - her childhood home was the exquisite Alhambra Palace in Granada.
Catherine was the daughter of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, two extraordinary ...