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The Divorce and the Daughters of Henry VIII
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The Divorce and the Daughters of Henry VIII

Since 1525, Henry VIII would be pressing for a divorce with his wife, Catherine of Aragon and since he himself is superstitious and believed that Catherine is the source of the bad luck and started to press a divorce with her.

On 1532, King Henry would divorce Catherine of Aragon however, Clement VII would not accept the divorce and despite that he would marry Anne Boleyn and declare supremacy, dissolve the monasteries and split from the Catholic Church and dissolve the monasteries in England the marriage with Anne Boleyn would result which would result in a daughter named Elizabeth of England in September 7, 1533 and in 1536, Anne was executed due to accusations of Adultery and married Jane Grey who gave birth to a son named Edward, Prince of Wales born in October 12, 1537 and he would not have another child afterwards and King Henry VIII would be content about the birth of a son, however the people brought in by Anne Boleyn would lead in Edward VI to be a protestant monarch, on 1540 in order to further the alliance between Spain and England and to avoid a French threat to the English, Princess Mary is betrothed to the widower Charles V, however, Charles V would give Mary to her son, Philip instead and Mary would embark to Brussels to marry her groom and the marriage would happen on 1542 after a long time of choosing a marriage for the Princess, since he would use it to strengthen his son’s claims and even had his son betrothed to Joanna of Spain since it is no longer possible for him to marry Christina of Denmark and even attempted to return his country to Catholicism by marrying Mary to the Prince of Asturias in 1542 which did happen and it would be his daughter who would restore Catholicism in England and allowed the monasteries to return and also a betrothal between Joanna of Spain and Edward VI.

After his death in 1549, his son Edward VI and his advisors and regents would briefly plunge England in the rule of the Protestants for a brief time and Catholics would be banned from key positions and also nullified his betrothal with Joanna of Spain and Henry VIII is also suspicious of the people that Anne put in in his court that he tried to remove them before his death in 1549 but he is not successful in that regard, the Protestants would reverse the last efforts of Henry VIII to restore the true faith to England bought by his marriage with Anne Boleyn.

Mary Tudor would have children with her husband, Philip, Prince of Asturias named Charles b. November 10, 1543, Philip b. June 10, 1545 and Isabella Clara Eugenia b. May 2, 1546, Catherine b, November 10, 1550 and another son named Ferdinand in May 10, 1553.

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