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2017 #Source: 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 procession stopped at a courtyard that Juana realized was run by nuns. Terrified that the nuns might try to seduce her dead husband, she immediately ordered the heavy coffin to be moved back out into the open fields, forcing her entire court to sleep in the cold rather than let Philip stay under a roof with other women. Eventually, her father, Ferdinand II, and later her son, Emperor Charles V, used this behavior as justification to lock her away in the windowless rooms of the Royal Convent of Santa Clara in Tordesillas, where she remained imprisoned for 46 years until her death. #JuanaLaLoca #JuanaTheMad #PhilipTheHandsome #Castile #SpanishHistory #Tordesillas #GothicHistory #RoyalScandal #1506 #Readingz #HistoryFacts