Historia de la célebre Reina de España Doña Juana, llamada vulgarmente La Loca

She's been called mad for five centuries. But this 16th-century biography asks whether her 'madness' was anything more than a convenient label for a queen who refused to be managed. Daughter of the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, Doña Juana inherited the thrones of Castile and Aragon, only to find herself trapped in a court that could not tolerate her independence. When her beloved husband Philip died unexpectedly, her grief was weaponized. For forty-six years she was confined, her power stripped away, her legacy rewritten by those who profited from her silence. This anonymous biography, written close to her lifetime, offers a rare and sympathetic portrait of a woman whom history has maligned. It is at once a political tract, a human document, and a tragedy about what happens when a queen is too inconvenient to rule and too royal to kill. For readers interested in early modern Spain, in the construction of 'madness' as a political tool, or in the lives of women who dared to exercise power on their own terms.