King Henry VIII initiated the reformation in England due mostly to his quest for a male heir to the throne. If Henry’s first wife had given birth to a male child, the entire restructuring of the church and dissolution of the monasteries would have been avoided.
Henry VIII King of England was never supposed to be king but as chance would have it he became king when his elder brother Arthur had died at the very young age of sixteen. Before his brother Arthur died and opened the way to his enthronement, their father had envisaged Henry as a future Archbishop of Canterbury. Luck would be on Henry’s side as his father Henry VII was still alive and able to set up his enthronement. Henry VII had secured the Tudor succession when he brought the War of the Roses to an end with his triumph at Bosworth Field. With Henry VIII king the future of England, the church, and the people had been sealed.
At the age of fourteen Henry married seventeen year old Catherine of Aragon who had been......
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