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King Henry VII is probably the most legendary and famous of the kings of England. During his long and eventful

reign

, he demolished the administrative and religious structures of the Middle Ages and fashioned for himself a thoroughly modern national state, but of course the colorful and charismatic king is best remembered for his endless marital difficulties because failed marriages of Henry

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the fall of no less than five of his queens and two of his most talented ministers. This then is the story of Henry, the king of the Six Wives. Henry was the youngest son of Henry II, who along with his wife Elizabeth of York was the founder of the Chuda dynasty, Henry had won the crown of England at the bloody field of Bosworth in 1485, where he finally defeated the Yorkist Richard III.

Their son Henry was born at Greenwich Palace in 1491 and it was in these pleasant surroundings that the boy spent most of his youth, becoming Prince of Wales following the unfortunate death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502 and when he finally agreed to the crown in 1509, England groaned under the burden. Due to the high taxes imposed by her father, the Royal Court after years of rule by a prudent but avaricious widow was in a deep depression and no doubt the entire country was hungry for a change from the austerity of Henry's 24-year

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. VII to the succession of the new King.

He was therefore greeted with universal optimism and enthusiasm and the whole country seemed to grasp the positive and optimistic mood that accompanied the succession of his handsome new prince. One of the new king's courtiers. Lord Mountjoy summed up these joyful sentiments in a glowing description of the new monarch. If you could see how everyone here rejoices at having such a great prince, how his life is all their desire, you would not hold back for sheer joy, extortion is humiliated, liberality spreads wealth with a generous hand, but our King does not set his heart in gold or Jewels, but about virtue, glory and immortality, the other day he told me: I wish I had more knowledge, but learning is not

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we expect from a king.

I replied simply that I should encourage the scholars, certainly he rejoined, since without them we would hardly live in Now,

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more splendid comment could a prince make? Sir Thomas Moore, who would later serve as Henry's Lord Chancellor, was also full of enthusiasm for the king. He has a way of making every man feel that he is enjoying special favor from him, just like the king of London. The wives pray before the image of Our Lady next to the Tower until each of them believes that she is smiling at them. In later years, Sir Thomas would come to feel very different, a man of the deepest convictions.

Henry would order her to abandon his beliefs as such. The king pursued his own personal political ambitions. Mo's refusal to do so would cost him his life, but even in those happy and optimistic early years of his reign, Henry was showing worrying signs of the ruthless and all-powerful autocrat he would later become. I am content with what I only wish to govern my own subjects, but I will not allow anyone to have it in their power to govern me nor will I ever tolerate it. The country's delight was further increased by the news that Henry's future queen was Catherine of Aragon, the popular Spanish princess who had been married to Henry's older brother Arthur when he tragically died the following year.

She immediately became engaged to Henry, the new Prince of Wales, as a means of maintaining an important alliance with Spain. The daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella Catherine was an attractive, proud and lively girl who had easily adapted to the customs of the English court now that Henry was King, she was eager to consolidate her commitment with a quick marriage; in fact, marriage was not entirely convenient for love and affection among the young. The couple was very genuine, if I were still free, I would choose them as my wife before everyone else. The king's happiness was completed when, on New Year's Day 1511, his new wife gave birth to him an apparently healthy son named Henry, the enchanted king, who made a Thanksgiving pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Walshingham and embarked on a series of extravagant celebrations culminating in a two-day tournament at Westminster, but the king and queen's joy was short-lived, as just 10 days later the infant Prince fell ill. and died for Henry, it was a heartbreaking blow, but after a period of deep and very public mourning, he was forced to face Affairs of State once more and there were urgent matters to consider in November 1511.

Henry had been invited by King Charles I. of Spain and Pope Julius II to form the Holy League against Francis I, first king of France, this new alliance would make war on France and the profits from the Enterprise would be divided equally. Always interested in finding ways to fill the royal coffers, Henry enthusiastically accepted. join and before long he was leading his country into what could legitimately be described as preparation for holy war. He had been placed in the capable hands of an ambitious clergyman called Thomas Woy. He was so successful in this job that when Henry returned from the wars he immediately promoted Woy from almana to Chief Minister, a meteoric and unprecedented rise to fame in October 1515.

The king was so captivated by the brilliant son of the butcher of ipswitch who wrote to the Pope asking him to make Woolsey a cardinal and within two years, Woy had been in Stagnation in the most important office in the country, that of Lord High Chancellor, for 15 years. After that, Henry and Woy formed a formidable partnership that ruled England in a ruthlessly efficient manner. It has been noted that the two shared a certain physical resemblance and certainly possessed similar personality traits. They were both unscrupulous and greedy and completely determined in their pursuit of the pleasures of the flesh, although the sage was unpopular, he was a talented man, highly intelligent, hard-working and loyal, unwavering in his devotion to Henry.

Cardinal Wy Thomas Waly was above all a very capable minister. of State, very, very capable, a University diplomat and an extremely astute politician, there is absolutely no doubt about it. I would say that he, overall, he was also a man dedicated to what he considered the good of England as a nation and he saw the future of England was great and he wanted to lead the country in that direction. He was often accused of being vain and liking pomp and circumstance, which is undoubtedly true, but I think those aspects of his character are very minor in comparison to this.

He had enormous ability and the way he was able to negotiate with sometimes hostile foreign powers and smooth out troubled waters, very much a man who wanted to see a peaceful future and a peaceful transition to that future, the only thing he cost. His career was the only thing she failed at and that was not getting the divorce that Henry so desperately wanted. I think it's fair to say in this context that he was yet another victim of Henry's vanity in this sense and um and and Henry's desperate desire to get a male heir if he hadn't died at Leester on his way to London, it's very clear that He would have been executed when he arrived in London if, however, he had been able to get the divorce Henry wanted, it was equally clear that he would have lived his life with some honor and respect during this time.

Henry and Catherine's attempts to produce a male heir to the throne had met with bitter disappointment. The death of the infant Prince Henry was followed in 1513 by the birth of a stillborn son and the delivery of a premature child in November of the following year; However, the luck of the unhappy couple seemed to revive when in February 1516 the queen gave birth safely to a girl named Mary, but now Henry had serious doubts. about Katherine's ability to give her a prince, what's more, her numerous pregnancies had inevitably taken their toll on Katherine's appearance and figure and Henry's loving eyes soon began to wander.

In 1518 he became involved in a passionate affair with a lady named Elizabeth Blount who ironically that was bittersweet and bore him a son whom he named Henry Fitzroy in 1520. He had a spectacular respite from Henry's domestic concerns when peace was made with France with its characteristic style in an event that became known as the field of cloth of gold Francis I and Henry VII. They met to cement their new friendship amid lavish displays on the plain of northern France, thus entering into a cordial agreement that had seemed impossible only a few years before. Golden palaces were erected and feasts and jousts followed that lasted for several days; peace was sealed. with the engagement of the two-year-old Princess Mary to the young Doan of France in continental Europe, however, religious uncertainty and dissatisfaction burned embodied by the appearance of the German priest Martin Luther, who finally kindled the burning fires of Protestantism .

King Henry, a good and devout Catholic, was completely outraged by the new doctrines and ideas that were giving rise to such heated debates and set himself up as a defender of the old religion. In 1521 he wrote some famous treatises in Latin, proudly calling it the defense of the seven sacraments. powerful document in which the king passionately defended the pope and the beleaguered Catholic faith, the words contained in the treaties are a testimony to the strength of Henry's feelings in which a snake so venomously slithered into it like the one that calls the most holy sea Babylon. of Rome and the The

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of the Authority of the Pope and converts the name of the Most Holy Bishop of Rome into that of the antichrist.

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When he arrived in Rome, the Pope naturally received Henry's work with unlimited enthusiasm and was flattered by the verses dedicated to him. In gratitude, he granted Henry the great title of defender of the faith, a title still held by the ruling monarch of England. Every day, despite this increase in the king's foreign fortunes, the royal marriage was now in serious difficulty. Queen Catherine had given birth to another stillborn girl and now it seemed that the entire nation was becoming increasingly concerned about the succession. Enrique was now absolutely desperate. to provide the country with the male heir to the throne that he so desperately needed, and his frustration with Catherine for not giving him what he wanted had now turned to bitter contempt;

He had probably already decided to try to divorce Catherine when in 1527 he met and fell in love with Anne Bolin. Anne was the daughter of Sir Thomas Berin and had been raised at the French court, where she had acquired a very attractive elegance. A contemporary account of her alleged lover. Anne is not one of the most beautiful women. in the world she is of average height, shy complexion, long neck, wide mouth, breasts not very high and, in fact, she was nothing more than the appetite of the English king and his eyes, which are black and beautiful, in fact, the Lascivious king was first attracted to his older sister, Mary, who was for a time his lover, but the young Anne did not allow herself to be conquered so easily.

The ambitious girl had set her sights firmly on the crown and determined not to give in to Henry's amorous advances unless there was a promise that he would marry her and make her his queen. Over a period of six years, she tempted and teased the king until he became completely obsessed with her. All feelings for Catherine were now completely forgotten. All the king wanted was for her not to be without other admirers. The poet Thomas Wyatt, for example, wrote about this love. Verse for her that lists the hunt for her. I put it beyond doubt, just as I can spend her time in vain and engraved in diamonds and simple letters, there is written her beautiful neck around no.

May taner for Caesars, I am and wild to hold. Although it seems that Henry 20 was completely in love with her and his ardor was heightened by the fact that An did not give in to her advances. I have been hit by the dart of love for more than a whole year. You will be pleased if you do for me the office of a true and loyal one. love and friend that you give yourself body and heart to me who will be and have been your very loyal servant I promise you not only the name that will be due you but also that I will take you for my soul love pushing all others except from thought or affection and to serve only you it is said that the king wrote the song Green Sleeves in honor of Anne Bolin The Love Struck Henry even resorted to verse to try to win his love now to my lady, the promise I make to her from everything I can only entrust the rest to her, so Enrique resorted to theCardinal Woy to settle what would become known as his great matter;

In fact, the king had become increasingly disenchanted with Woolsey, a feeling fueled by envy and resentment at the enormous wealth Woolsey had possessed. What he had acquired over the years now came the opportunity to earn the love and affection of his master once again. He was asked to divorce Catherine of Aragan on the spurious grounds that, because she had been married to the king's brother, the union was incestuous and illegal, this could not be achieved without papal authority. Henry was unprecedentedly anti-Catholic and highly unlikely to be granted. Wo's onerous task became considerably more difficult for him when the shifting alliances in Europe changed once again when Charles I of Spain, Queen Catherine's nephew, sacked Rome. and took the Pope prisoner in this delicate situation, it was even more unlikely that the pontiff would annul Catherine's marriage and risk offending his captor, so to make a decision a commission was created to examine the entire question of the divorce.

The men in charge of the commission were Cardinal Woy and Cardinal Campeggio, of course. Woy was eager to obey Henry's orders and win the divorce, but Camp Pedio delayed and in July 1523, just as a trial was expected, announced that the decision would be postponed until the end of October, not surprisingly, the king will be filled with anger and frustration. and it was the unfortunate Thomas Woy who bore the brunt of his terrible temper for failing to win over Henry. Upon divorce he was summarily dismissed as chancellor and ordered to retire in disgrace in the race to archbishop Rick of York.

Unfortunately, Woolsey made the grave mistake of asking Francis I and Charles I to intercede with the king on his behalf, Henry was furious and decided that Wo's desperate act was treason. Therefore, he ordered his Ur servant to be arrested and taken to London to face the charge that he was on his way. He returned to London to stand trial when he died at Leester, thus avoiding certain execution. Wo's fall from grace had been as spectacular as his rise to power in July 1531. Henry secretly left Windsor Castle to go hunting with Anne. He would never see his wife Catherine again. .

He was ordered to move into Wo's former home at the time in Chelsea and was forbidden from writing to the king or seeing his daughter, Princess Mary, for the heartbroken queen. A helpless porn in the powerful game The Strain was almost too much to bear. entrusted to a lady in waiting what I suffer is enough to kill 10 men much more a broken woman who has done no harm I am the legitimate wife of the king and as long as I live I will not say any other in the Moore separated from my husband without having offended Somehow, Catherine, the unhappy Queen, was completely frustrated by the lack of progress in her divorce, but still determined to get her way.

The king's patience with the Pope and the Catholic Church was wearing thin. In fact, there was a general atmosphere of dissatisfaction with the church throughout the country as people grew tired of cynical ecclesiastical abuses and injustices, the opportunistic Henry had now taken advantage of the popular mood, after all, if the Protestant Luther had not demonstrated That there was an alternative to papal authority for a man who had recently written so passionately in defense of the Catholic doctrines that had so lavishly praised and lorded over the Pope, was an incredible change of heart, but now Henry would stop at nothing to achieve his objectives, although there is no evidence that he had the intention of breaking with Rome before 1532, the discovery that Anne Berin was pregnant brought things forward.

The new baby surely the desired child had to be born within marriage and so on 25 January 1533 Henry and An married secretly. The terrible news reaching the disbelieving Catherine of Aragan, who was informed by letter that she was no longer Queen and would return to her former position as Princess of Wales, was a final merciless and callous humiliation for the queen she had maintained throughout her Oréal. the greatest dignity. In May of that year a special ecclesiastical court was convened in dunable under the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, a fellow opportunist, and the king's marriage to Catherine of Aragan was declared null and void before parliament had long approved a law that restricted appeals to Rome to prevent the former queen from getting help from the The Catholic Church fought for her cause and almost in one fell swoop the power of the Pope and in England came to an end.

Finally, Henry was free to marry on 29 May 1533. Anne Bin received a lavish coronation and four months later she had a new royal child born, but it was not Prince Bonnie to King Henry. King Henry dreams because Anne gave birth to a girl. Princess Elizabeth Henry could barely hide her disappointment. He perhaps stopped loving Anne the moment Elizabeth was born. He was still determined to confirm the break with Rome. and to validate his remarriage, the king decided that all of his key subjects must take an oath of supremacy in support of his new position. Sir Thomas Moore, an enormously gifted man and respected figure, had already resigned the chancellorship over the break with Rome.

Moore's faith would not. Allowing him to compromise his deeply held Catholic beliefs when Henry insisted he take the oath, Moore flatly refused and now followed one of the most reckless and terrible actions of the king's reign. He had become one of the most learned and brilliant men of the time. brutally executed, the life of one of England's great men was therefore unnecessarily sacrificed to the selfish whims of King Henry. A Berin, already considered responsible by the people for the fall of the popular Catherine of Aragan, was also blamed for the death of Thomas Moore, making her even more unpopular throughout the country and, of course, the position of the new Queen was made even more insecure by her continued failure to give Henry a prince.

He had a phantom pregnancy and often gave way to the most furious fits of temper. He simply wasn't meeting Enrique's high expectations. From her to Ana, the writing was clearly on the wall. 1536 saw the death of the unhappy Catherine of Aragan, who since her fall from grace had been kept prisoner by her ex-husband. Her sad words reflected the intensity of her situation, my Lord and dear husband. I entrust to you the hour of my death is approaching and being such my case, the Tender Love that I owe you forces me to remember the health and Safeguarding of your soul, which you must prefer before all worldly things and before the care and tenderness of your body for which you have thrown me into so many miseries and yourself into many cares on my part, I forgive you all, yes, I devoutly wish and ask God to forgive you also for the rest, I commend you. you to María, our daughter, begging you to be a good father to her, as I here last wished you.

I promise that my eyes desire you above all things, although in the fall of 1536 a Berin was pregnant again and time was already running out. Because Henry had met and fallen in love with Jane Seymour, one of the queen's ladies in Waiting, the court quickly became aware of the king's feelings for Jane and rumors and gossip could hardly fail to reach Anne. Henry had long since stopped loving his queen and he no longer wanted to hide her feelings from him in 1536. Henry was seriously injured in a jousting tournament upon hearing the news. Queen Anne, who was pregnant, went into shock and subsequently miscarried.

The loss of the baby effectively sealed her fate. Enrique immediately ordered it. uncle the Duke of Norford and his most trusted minister, Thomas Cromwell, to engineer the downfall of the queen so he could marry Jane, his new love, while Jane Seymour pressured her royal sutor by withholding his favors until she was sure of obtaining the crown on one occasion. Henry sent Lord Mountjoy with a gift of money, but she simply kissed the enclosed letter and then returned it unopened, falling to her knees and asking him to assure the king on her behalf that she was a prudent and kind woman, of good character. and honorable family.

A woman without reproach that she had no greater treasure in this world than her honor which she would not harm even by a thousand deaths ended by saying that if the king wanted to send her money I beg him to do so when God can find me a husband. husband to marry the Duke of Norfolk and the new Prime Minister Thomas Cromwell were ruthless and thorough in their work, they accused Anne of having had affairs with no less than five of her courtiers, including her brother Lord Rochford, in due course. a confession was obtained. The torture of Mark Simon, a musician, confirmed the suspicions of Norfolk and Cromwell and 3 days after her alleged lovers had been found guilty of adultery with her, the queen was put on trial accused of plotting the king's death by promising to marry one of his lovers.

Condemned before the trial began, however, Anne accepted her fate as befits a queen. I'm not saying that she always showed him the humility that she deserved from her kindness to me. I confess that I have been jealous and suspicious of him that she had no discretion. enough and wisdom to hide but God knows and is my witness that I have not sinned against him otherwise I do not think I say it in the hope of prolonging my life God has taught me to die and will strengthen my faith regarding my brother and those others who are unjustly condemned, I would gladly suffer many deaths to free them, but since I see that it pleases the king, I will willingly accompany them in death with the assurance that I will live an eternal life with them in peace, Queen.

Berin was executed in the Tower of London in May 1536, although Anne had died, the Reformation of the Church of England which she had indirectly started or continued apace, between 1534 a survey of the wealth of the church was carried out known as Valor ecclesiasticus. and in 1535 she revealed the rich profits to be made the following year. Parliament abolished all small religious foundations whose net income was less than 2,200 shillings a year. All his lands and treasures were to revert to the king. The dissolution of the monasteries began a revolution that affected. ecclesiastical life, the structure of society and even the appearance of the landscape when the abies and convents, the monasteries and priories were plundered, their inhabitants thrown into the streets and the buildings themselves left in ruins.

Well, the dissolution of the monasteries has a pretty clear reason behind it: The most obvious reason why Henry wanted to dissolve the monasteries was to make money despite his income of around £100,000 a year. He needed money to uh finance adventures in Europe and the wars um and that is the reason that is always cited, it was simply a land grab, but there is a more political reason for the dissolution of the monasteries and that was a long-standing rivalry between the papacy and the monarchy, not only in this country but throughout Europe, in terms of who ran the country. and this rival rum was continuous and deeply felt by Henry despite his other problems related to the marriage, so by dissolving the monasteries he killed two birds with one stone, so to speak, he obtained additional income, additional lands that he could keep for nor give in to his favorites, but it also weakened the church and that was a very important consideration now that the dissolution actually took place in two phases: the dissolution of the smaller monasteries and then a later dissolution of the larger monasteries in the previous phases. uh, to the members of the convents, the naries, the monasteries, etc.

They were given options, they could follow their vocation elsewhere, they could retire with pensions, etc., the subsequent dissolution tended to be somewhat more brutal and the people or members of the church were expelled without many options as to where to go. late May 1536, less than a month after Bolin's execution. Henry took Jane Seymour as his new wife and queen. Her place in Henry's heart was assured when on October 12, 1537 she gave birth to a healthy son after a severe labor that lasted more than 3 days and nights; However, at first she was well enough to write proudly to Thomas Cromwell: we will be delivered and brought in the birth of a prince conceived in the most legitimate marriage. between the Lord, the King's Majesty and us, but within a few days she was showing signs of illness, probably pure fever, and less than a fortnight after Prince Edward's birth, Jane Seymour died.

Henry is said to have loved Jane above all his wives and he was genuinely heartbroken by her death in later years, requesting that his own coffin be placed next to hers after his own death, demonstrating his affection for his mother. only child; However, with plague and smallpox ravaging the entire country, the king did not feel that he could do so. He was resting easy with only one child, so he decided to look for another girlfriend. In view of his recent

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, it was not surprising that many eligible young women were not very willing to come forward;

In any case, the king's policy at home wasmain determining factor. Given his choice of future wife, the successful dissolution of the monasteries had paved the way for the disintegration of increasingly larger establishments, it was not surprising that Catholic monarchs abroad were outraged by the actions of Henry and the June 18, 1538, Charles I of Spain and Francis I of France signed a truce jointly committing themselves to the suppression of Protestant heresies, at the same time that Pope Paul III issued a bull excommunicating Henry and absolving his subjects of their allegiance. to him as a result of these new external pressures.

The king found himself in urgent need of strong and reliable Protestant allies, so a marriage to a German princess was considered the most favorable option to help the king make his decision. Artist Hans Haline was commissioned to paint portraits of several German noblewomen. This was certainly not the case. a task that Enrique found difficult and, while examining the various possibilities, he fell in love with Aline's miniature portrait of a slit. Unfortunately, the artists had almost certainly exaggerated the tonic charms of the German princess who was already in love with the image of her that Henry had set his heart on. marriage and in September 1539 a marriage treaty was signed;

However, when Henry was finally introduced to Anne, he could not hide his bitter disappointment or her intense anger because he felt he had been deceived and humiliated. I see nothing in this woman as men report of her and I marvel that wise men made reports of her as they have done if I had known all that I know now she should never have come to this kingdom it is said that the The king referred to his new wife as the mayor of Flanders and it is rumored that after their wedding the king played cards with her all night to avoid any intimacy this story may have.

It is apocryphal, but it accurately sums up the feelings. of the king towards his new queen Anne was unnecessarily humiliated because Henry simply couldn't be bothered to hide his contempt for her breasts and her belly, she should not be a maiden, which when I felt them struck me so hard in the heart that I have no will nor worth to the rest, the hapless Anne, alone and unwanted in a foreign country, quickly became an isolated and unhappy figure who could hardly help but feel hurt by her new husband's coldness, even though the marriage was originally born of a political question. need I confided in a lady-in-waiting when he comes to bed he kisses me and takes my hand and says goodnight darling and in the morning he kisses me and says goodbye darling, isn't this enough?

The architect of the disastrous marriage between Henry and Anne had been Thomas Cromwell, the prime minister who until then had been the king's most trusted advisor, born in 1485 in Putney. Cromwell was the son of Smith and Fuller and had risen through the ranks in the service of Cardinal Woolsey while men like St. Thomas Moore were prevented by conscience from helping the king obtain his divorce from Catherine of Aragon. It was Cromwell who finally achieved it. It was also Cromwell who planned the break with Rome and planned the dissolution of the monasteries that he had. He took the medieval system of government and shook it to its roots, thus transforming it into an administration far more suitable for a modern national state.

Although Cromwell gained a reputation as a heartless schemer, he was certainly no more cruel than other powerful men of the It was Chudder. but despite his undeniable achievements, ridding his master of the May of Flanders was too much for him. Thomas Cromwell would join the long list of brilliant men who turned to justice to please the increasingly irrational Henry. Thomas Cromwell as his namesake. I think Oliver Cromwell has been much maligned in history, there is no doubt that he could be ruthless and he was also ambitious, but like his um employer, the Earth, while his employer, a Cardinal, came from quite humble origins, rose to great power and He was a very, very able administrator, in fact I think in some ways Thomas Cromwell was one of the ablest ministers this country has ever had.

He is an astute politician, a smart lawyer and again he was dedicated. People have accused him a bit of being cynical. but I think he was dedicated, like Wy, to a great future for England, since with Cardinal Waly, the only great failure in his career is what ended him and that is the negotiation of the marriage contract with a Cleaves, Henry said. I didn't like Cromwell and in a way that sealed Cromwell's doom, he died in the Block and Hen Henry turned his back on him and was no longer interested in his Fate. The King's ardent desire to free himself from one of the divisions had been further inflamed by the young and fledgling Katherine Howard, a niece of the Duke of Noruk whose considerable physical charms had attracted his attention at court, as had her cousin Anne Berin.

Before her, she was a lady-in-waiting to the queen and although Henry was now an aging, obese Hulk suffering from an ulcerated leg who soon decided to have her as his fifth wife perhaps Catherine awakened in Henry rapidly fading memories of a youth. long lost perhaps it was simply that Catherine was everything An of Cleaves was not in July 154 40 Henry divorced An Of Cleaves and married. Katherine Howard, as usual, by hook or by crook, by hook or by crook, had gotten what she wanted, gotten rid of Anne and married an attractive young wife, unfortunately for Henry and also For Catherine, the King's last marriage was not going to work out as planned, it was not long before the almost comical mismatch

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problems essentially Katherine Howard was just a young woman who was approximately 21 years old when she married Henry and he was 48 at the time, probably as old as her, her parents, um, her. she had a girl's perspective she had a girl's interests there is a story that says that Henry borders I don't know if that's true or not, he could be apocryphal, but she certainly had her eyes open for the young people around her.

He is very easily distracted by any young man who showed him any interest. It is true that she was indiscreet in her early years, here we are talking about 18 or 19 and there is at least a suspicion that she had sexual relations with one. of her suitors previously this has never been proven, but the suspicion was very clear, certainly she had many previous encounters with young men and these were very well known after becoming Queen, unfortunately for her, she continued to have relationships with other young men. men um notably um Co pepper is one of the characters who appeared in a shadowy figure, shadowy in the sense that her intentions were thought to be not entirely honorable, she was trying to advance her own career, but again, she was very indiscreet and people knew about it. hel Liaisons and inevitably Henry found out about them once he heard about them, of course, um, her vanity again intruded.

I think he was insulted by the idea that his wife was not a virgin when she married him and that she could look at other men and Once again, her fate was finally sealed once the news was given to her and she died on the Block. . I think she was accused of unlawful sexual relations because, of course, having a relationship with the Queen of England was high treason and, in a sense, she. she herself committed high treason by having those relations Katherine Howard finally went to the block on February 13, 1542 and the bloated, sick and disillusioned Henry submerged his pain and humiliation by burying himself in foreign affairs his armies soundly defeated the Scots under the command of James I under Moss rule. a victory that lifted Henry's spirits and concluded a treaty against France with Charles V of Spain, whose frenetic activity left Henry feeling secure enough to contemplate seeking his sixth wife.

The woman on whom Enrique's eyes fell was Katherine, 31 years old. Although she was married to an elderly invalid Lord Latimer in Tudor times, it was very unusual for married women to receive gifts from other men, but there are records of Henry ordering Italian-style dresses for her and sending her gifts of pleats and sleeves that she did not. He was able to stop accepting when Latima finally had the good grace to die. Henry was forced to wait for a decent period of de mour to pass before courting Catherine again. Another sutor, Sir Thomas Seymour, whom Katherine genuinely loved, was forced to step aside;

In fact, the King was so jealous of Seymour, the brother of his third wife, Jane, that he sent him to the court of the Regent of the Netherlands in Brussels to get him out of the way in 1543. Henry was a sad and lonely old man and He was mainly attracted to Katherine. because she was the antithesis of her predecessors, virtuous, intellectually capable and a good conversationalist, Katherine was also an expert in Greek and Latin. Obviously, Henry believed that she would be a pleasant nurse and companion in her old age and that she would be an excellent stepmother to his children, a good thing.

It is when women become such employees. Henry loved it and it was a very comforting thing for me to come in my old days to take lessons from my wife, so in July 1543 the couple celebrated their marriage in the chapel at Hampton Court and Katherine became the sixth and last of Henry. As Henry's health declined and his death became a probability rather than a possibility, the fight for a position at court increased, the strongest contender for power emerging in the form of Edward Seymour, Lord Hartford, uncle of Prince Edward, and was named as one of the four Regency Councilors for the young Prince Edward in the will of Henry VII Henry VII breathed his last at St.

James's Palace in London on 28 January 1547 and the great Icon Chuder, a king at Grand Manor, finally coming to his bedside to comfort him in his final moments was Archbishop Cranmer, perhaps the only surviving friend and servant from the Halian days of the early 1530s; The old king, who had once seemed so indestructible, had lived to be 55 and his monumental reign had lasted almost 38 years; It is very difficult to know. Let's say what Henry's legacy was, he was an important character in every sense of the word, he's a very colorful character, but I think ultimately as a man he was, he was shallow, he was vain, he was spoiled, he was arrogant and ruthless, the good that came. outside of his reign, I think um uh it happened almost in spite of him, he had the two able ministers, Wy and Cromwell, who achieved much more than Henry VII himself achieved, they did it at his behest, but actually the Henry's motives were purely selfish, whether for himself or to fight. for his own interests or in pursuit of the future of the dynasty.

I don't think Henry was all that committed to the future of the country as a whole, while his ministers certainly were to the good that came from Henry's reign. I think it can

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ly be attributed to other people that the fact that this is a Protestant country is almost accidental in terms of Henry's reign. I mean, it's often said that Henry established a Protestant Church in this country, right? He established the Church of England with himself at the head and I think that was a form of vanity, but it also allowed him to pursue his own interests again.

The fact that this eventually became a Protestant church was largely despite Henry. Later in his reign, he actively persecuted Protestant heretics and still saw himself as Catholic, so I would say that all the things that have been attributed to Henry, um, have

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ly been unfairly attributed, uh, I don't think so, As a man, Henry himself contributed nothing, I think so. It was the people around him who contributed to this for the good of the country and it is the people around him who, so to speak, designed the path that the future was going to take and, as I repeat, particularly Wy and Cromwell, that is how they ended up the reign of England's most colorful and controversial monarch, Catherine, the queen who survived him eventually married her former sutor Tom Seymour, but died in childbirth the following year.

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