
Age of Absolutism 2: Tudor England, 1485-1603
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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Can I Somehow Annull My Marriage?
Catherine becomes his first queen, and they have a young son who dies very soon in infancy. henry comes to believe that his need for a male heir cannot be fulfilled by catherine. He starts looking into can i somehow annul this marriage? Right? You can annul a marriage in the roman catholic church if you can somehow demonstrate that it was never a legitimate marriage to begin with. And he finds this nice loophole in the form of the bible passage that prohibits marrying your late brother's widow.
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