Juana la Reina (Spanish Edition)

This dramatic and passionate book follows the steps of Johanna of Castile from the days before her birth to the last day of her life. It describes the influence that worked on her and the lives of the people who were next to her: her authoritarian mother (the queen Isabella the Catholic), her father (Ferdinand the Catholic) and his scheming wife, Philip the Handsome and specially her son, Charles I of Spain and V of Germany. Yolanda Scheuber, guides us with the help of her novel through the net of conspiracies to get an insight into the life of a woman, betrayed by her father, her husband and son. A life loaded with misery, fantasy and hubbubs in times where religion, wars, intolerance, indifference, injustice, extreme hunger and excessive wealth were just fragments of daily life in Spain.