ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Catherine of Valois, (born October 27, 1401, Paris, France-died January 3, 1437, Bermondsey Abbey, London, England), French princess, the wife of King Henry V of England, mother of King Henry VI, and grandmother of the first Tudor monarch of England, Henry VII.

Detailed explanation-2: -Catherine of Valois was the youngest daughter of King Charles VI of France and his wife Isabeau of Bavaria. She was born at the Hôtel Saint-Pol (a royal palace in Paris) on 27 October 1401.

Detailed explanation-3: -Depp plays Catherine of Valois, a French princess and Henry’s fiancée. The King’s version of Catherine is about six times sharper than Henry-and he seems to love her for it. But is this depiction of Catherine and Henry as a union of equals at all accurate? Probably not.

Detailed explanation-4: -The daughter of King Charles VI and Queen Isabel, Catherine has been raised to act like a prim and proper princess who doesn’t make out in the backseat of her boyfriend’s car before she’s married (5.2) and who doesn’t cuss in front of men (3.4). She’s also got a seriously thick accent when she speaks English.

Detailed explanation-5: -As part of the treaty following the battle of Agincourt, Henry V (1386–1422) – Shakespeare’s ‘Prince Harry’ – married the French princess Catherine (1401–1437) in 1420, depicted here in a copy of the history of the French monarchs, the Chroniques de France.