Spanish Princess Season 3: Will Be The Show Renewed For a Third Season or Not?

By Aarush Sharma On May 11, 2022

Spanish Princess Season 3: The popular historical drama series The Spanish Princess was developed by Emma Frost and Matthew Graham. The second season of Queen Catherine ended on November 29th, 2020. After two seasons, fans have been waiting to see if the show will be renewed for a third season.

The Spanish Princess will not be returning for the following season, according to a report in Cheatsheet. According to the media outlet, the show’s makers, Starz, announced during the filming of the second season that Catherine’s adventure may be coming to an end.

Despite the fact that Princess Catherine’s story has concluded, the news site speculates that the show’s makers may return with a fresh story. The life of Eleanor of Aquitaine will most likely be the inspiration for the next series.

She was the queen consort of both France and England in the 12th century. The drama is said to be based on Alison Weir’s Eleanor biography from 1999, as well as the companion novel Captive Queen.

Spanish Princess Season 3

From the start, everybody knowledgeable with English history understood how the first season of The Spanish Princess would end: beheadings, divorce, and ruin. The lavish Starz period drama portrays King Henry VIII’s (Ruari O’Connor) infamous narrative through the perspective of his warrior first wife, Catherine of Aragon (Charlotte Hope).

The second season of The Spanish Princess establishes the story’s familiar elements: When Catherine is unable to bear a male heir, Henry considers other choices, eventually marrying five more times and causing religious strife in England. Will the story be continued in the third season?

Finally, it appears unlikely that The Spanish Princess will be renewed for a third season—but the series’ creators are promising more episodes like The Spanish Princess.

The Spanish Princess is the third installment in Emma Frost’s royal trilogy, which is based on Philippa Gregory’s royal books. It is also the only one to receive an additional eight episodes.

The White Queen and The White Princess, the first two, were both one-season miniseries. A month after the first season’s confusing finale in 2019, The Spanish Princess, co-written with Matthew Graham, was handed a further eight episodes.

The Spanish Princess Season 1 finishes with Henry and Catherine preparing for their long-awaited wedding. A happy occasion is tinged with unease: Catherine is lying about her relationship with Henry’s brother, Arthur (and her first husband). Their mutual glance, weighted with things unsaid, sets the tone for the second season, which is even darker.

Catherine of Aragon was beheaded, but not as brutally as some of Henry’s other wives. Catherine was stripped of her title of “Queen” in 1533 and exiled to the distant Kimbolton Castle to live out her days. Catherine died at the age of 50, four months before Henry’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, was killed, according to the BBC’s History Extra. Mary, her daughter, was never seen again.

Who will be Cast in Spanish Princess Season 3?

Princess Mary of England, subsequently Queen of France, was played by Sai Bennett. Princess Mary is played by Isla Merrick-Lawless.

Queen Isabella of Castile was played by Alicia Borrachero, Thomas More was played by Andrew Buchan, Margaret “Maggie” Pole was played by Laura Carmichael, and De Fuensalida, the Spanish ambassador to England, was played by Daniel Cerqueira.

The Oviedo, a Spanish Muslim crossbow maker and one of Princess Catherine of Aragon’s soldiers, was played by Aaron Cobham. King Henry VII of England was played by Elliot Cowan.

Thomas Wolsey was played by Philip Cumbus, and King Ferdinand II of Aragon was played by Antonio de la Torre. General Thomas Howard was played by Peter Egan. Queen Joanna of Castile was played by Alba Galocha.

Lady Elizabeth “Bessie” Blount was played by Chloe Harris, Princess Margaret “Meg” Tudor, and afterward, Queen of Scotland was played by Georgie Henley. Princess Catherine of Aragon, afterward Queen of England, was played by Charlotte Hope. Crown Prince Arthur Tudor is played by Angus Imrie.

Lina de Cardonnes, a Morisco lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon, was played by Stephanie Levi-John. Gordon Kennedy plays the Duke of Albany, John Stewart. Sir Richard Pole was played by Alan McKenna. Elizabeth of York, Queen of England, was played by Alexandra Moen.

Harry, Duke of York, eventually King Henry VIII of England, was played by Ruairi O’Connor. Rosa de Vargas, a lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon, was played by Nadia Parkes. Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, was played by Richard Pepper. Charles “Charlie” Brandon was played by Jordan Renzo.

Edward Stafford was played by Olly Rix. King James IV of Scotland was played by Ray Stevenson, and Margaret Beaufort, the King’s Mother, was played by Harriet Walter.

Spanish Princess Season 3 Release Date

Frost and Graham’s future project has endless potential. Even if we have to say goodbye to Catherine after two seasons, it appears that we will be introduced to another time of history through the eyes of a complex lady.

However, no one knows when it will be released—after all, it hasn’t been declared yet! For the time being, we’ll rewatch The White Queen, The White Princess, or other escapist dramas that transport us to alternate realities.

Conclusion

When the eight-episode second season of The Spanish Princess was first announced in 2019, showrunners Emma Frost and Matthew Graham made it clear that the story of the titular Catherine of Aragon would conclude in the second season.

“I hope we were able to create a journey that is still full of surprises,” Graham added. “And the finish, I don’t think it ends in a place that will surprise dramatically, even if it ends in a place that history and those who know their history will know.”