And on the 25th day of the same month of March the said Kings [Fernando II of Aragon and Isabel of Castile] in honour of these ambassadors, held another celebration, namely a running of the bulls. And after there came out a hundred knights and other noble men, who were well mounted upon beautiful jennets [small breed of horse] and skirmished and ran with canes in the fashion in which they combat with the Saracens, which was a beautiful thing to behold. And the Kings [Fernando of Aragon and Isabel of Castile] and the prince [of Asturias, Juan] and three of the children of the aforementioned kings [Isabel of Aragon, Juana of Castile, and María of Aragon] they were upon said scaffold. And the ambassadors beside them. And it was beautiful to see how the Queen [Isabel of Castile] held her youngest daughter on her lap, which was the Infante lady Katerine princess of Wales, and at that time she was of the age of three years.
Roger Machado's account of witnessing, on 25th March 1489, Isabel of Castile (aged 37) holding her daughter Katharine of Aragon (aged 3) on her lap, at the entertainments put on for Machado and the rest of his party, who were enovys sent by Henry VII of England, the father of Katharine's fiancé, Arthur, Prince of Wales.
From Embassy to Spain and Portugal, in The Journals of Roger Machado; published as part of Memorials of Henry the Seventh, edited by James Gardiner, 1858.
