A Romantic Love Letter written by Catherine of Aragon (1485 - 1536) to Henry VIII of England.

My Lord and Dear Husband,

I commend me unto you. The hour of my death draweth fast on, and my case being such, the tender love I owe you forceth me, with a few words, to put you in remembrance of the health and safeguard of your soul, which you ought to prefer before all worldly matters, and before the care and tendering of your own body, for the which you have cast me into many miseries and yourself into many cares.

For my part I do pardon you all, yea, I do wish and devoutly pray God that He will also pardon you.

For the rest I commend unto you Mary, our daughter, beseeching you to be a good father unto her, as I heretofore desired. I entreat you also, on behalf of my maids, to give them marriage-portions, which is not much, they being but three. For all my other servants, I solicit a year's pay more than their due, lest they should be unprovided for.

Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things.

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Catherine of Aragon was the first of Henry VIII six wives and the mother of Queen Mary. Catherine was the only wife from whom he was able to get a divorce (although it is known as an anullment) whilst still part of the Roman Catholic church.

He later set up the Church of England with himself as leader in order to be able to divorce a later wife although most of his wives were beheaded on grounds of infidelity or other now considered false accusations.  Although the King divorced Catherine in 1533 in order to marry Anne Boleyn, she as this letter shows still remained devoted to Henry her former husband until her death in 1536.

Note the way she had to address him as My Lord to recognise his position as King of England (Scotland was not part of his realm and the UK was not formed until nearly 200 years later).