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>needs son because no English monarch before Elizabeth I had ever successfully passed the throne onto a daughter, without the kingdom falling into turmoil and the family being killed off soon after
>has son with mistress Elizabeth Blount, but the bastard dies in childhood
>wants to divorce his aged, time capsule of a wife Catherine; but her nephew "Holy" "Roman" "Emperor" Charles V has recently sacked Rome and taken Pope Clement hostage.
>Charles had recently betrayed Henry by negotiating a separate peace while both Kingdoms were at war with France, and wasn't going to let Clement rule in Henry's favor for a divorce (despite the Pope's personal liking of Henry, especially after he attacked Martin Luther). Charles begins eyeing, if not the absorption of England's possessions into the HRE, a Habsburg on England's throne
>breaks with Habsburg puppet state that was Rome once he realizes Charles is basically running the church; still taking great pains to ensure the "Church of England" remained as sacramentally and theologically "Catholic" as possible (even if politically it was no more)
>Irish-Catholic liars and shitposters in America and Canada bitch that "Henry VIII only left the church to get his dick wet" and that "he should've realized it was his fault he couldn't produce male children"
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Charles or no Charles the church teaches that divorce from a sacramentally valid marriage is impossible and that having affairs with other women is adultery. Henry VII wanted to have more sex but couldn't because the church and Christs teachings condemn that as sinful and reprobate. So he created his own church to sanction a sexually immoral lifestyle. He destroyed the shrines of st Thomas a becket and st Richard of Chichester to remove the memory of holy churchmen who defended catholic truth against those who persecuted them using secular governmental power. It is true that the Church of England initially from 1535-1547 remained sacra mentally valid but soon after the Edwardine reforms became Protestant after the priesthood was abolished and most of the sacraments were removed or calvinized.
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