"Ian Jelf" wrote in message
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Except that for once there *might* be a grain of
truth in the Infanta story.....

We were told last year at a local history lecture in
Southwark that the land south from the Thames
to well beyond and including the present day
the E&C *was* given to Catherine of Aragon
when she first came to England (landing near
the site of the present day "Globe", incidentally.

So, although it's *probably* an urban myth,
there is a slim chance, after debunking it all
these years, that it might have been true all along.

Slim indeed. Aragon and Castille are separate places.

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