La Loca

About the show

Juana is passionately devoted to her husband Philip, who is unfaithful and pressures her to surrender her claim to the Spanish throne. After Philip dies, she travels with his body to Spain and sings to him. Her father Fernando tries to take the kingdom; when she refuses, he confines her in a convent and separates her from all but daughter Catalina. Later her son Carlos demands her abdication; she again refuses, and he removes Catalina and boards up her cell window. After 46 years of confinement, dying Juana is comforted by priest Miguel.