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🎵. #hite. #$The Queen Who Refused to Let Go: Juana the Mad’s Vigil (1506) History has been unkind to Queen Juana of Castile, branding her Juana la Loca (Joanna the Mad). While her mental state is still debated—was she truly insane, or just a victim of extreme gaslighting by the men who wanted her throne?—her grief in 1506 was undeniably obsessive. When her unfaithful husband, Philip the Handsome (Philip I), died suddenly of fever (or poison), the 26-year-old Queen didn't just mourn him; she refused to leave him. The narrative is a gothic road trip of heartbreak. Juana exhumed Philip’s body and embarked on a bizarre, nocturnal journey across the freezing plains of Castile. She insisted on traveling only at night, claiming that "a widow who has lost the sun of her soul should not expose herself to the light of day." The journey was marked by intense jealousy that outlived the grave. Juana frequently ordered the coffin opened to gaze at Philip’s embalmed face and kiss his feet. On one famous occasion, the pr