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A male heir
Henry was acutely aware of the importance of securing a
male heir during his reign. He was worried that he had only
one surviving child, Mary, to show for his marriage to
Catherine, who was now in her 40s.Henry became
disappointed with Catherine when she did not provide him
with a son and heir. So the king asked Cardinal Wolsey to
appeal to Pope Clement VII for an annulment and it soon
became clear he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn, who had
been a lady-in-waiting to his first wife.
In 1533, Henry VIII broke with the church and married the
now pregnant Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony. Henry was
excommunicated by the Pope. The English reformation had
begun.
Anne Boleyn
In September 1533 Anne gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth
(the future Queen Elizabeth I). Henry had grown tired of her,
and after two further pregnancies ended in miscarriages, she
was arrested in 1536 on trumped up charges of adultery and
publicly beheaded at the Tower of London.

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Henry still wanted a son, and despite the fact that there
were many more pregnancies, none of the children survived.
Henry was not happy and his problem solver, Thomas
Cromwell, believed that Henry should get rid of Anne Boleyn,
but warned that a second divorce would be unwise. Anne

Boleyn had been faithful to King Henry but Cromwell was not
going to let the truth get in the way of a good story. In May
1536, Anne was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Five
men, including her brother, were accused of being her
boyfriends and they were executed. After just three years of
marriage, Anne Boleyn was tried and found guilty of adultery.
She was given the choice of being burned or beheaded. She
chose to be beheaded.

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A man of extremes
Henry turned the country upside down in pursuit of Anne
Boleyn, changing the nation's official religion, annulling his
first marriage and executing once-favoured advisers to
secure his marriage to her. However, when Anne failed to
produce a son to carry on Henry's legacy, even she wasn't
safe.
Henry , Mary , and Anne
The king was fascinated with Anne Boleyn, who had arrived
from the French court and was one of his wife's ladies-inwaiting. Henry had already slept with her sister, Mary, but
Anne refused to be his mistress. She had higher ambitions.

All the king's men

Henry raised men from modest backgrounds to powerful
offices, so they could help him achieve his goals. These men
were loyal to the king but they knew that if they failed,
Henry had the power to bring them back down to earth ,
such as Thomas Wolsey ,Thomas More ,Thomas Cromwell
,Thomas Cranmer.

Anne runs out of time

Henry was bitterly disappointed when Anne gave birth to a
stillborn boy. She hadn't produced his longed-for heir and
Henry had also grown tired of her passionate temper. Anne's
many enemies at court scented blood.