Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon: Why Did They Divorce? | The Six Queens Of Henry VIII | Channel 5
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- Catherine of Aragon was the first of the Six Queens Of Henry VIII. Catherine had several miscarriages, three infants who were either stillborn or died immediately after birth and gave birth to two infants who died within their first few weeks of life. Despite being in love at the start of Henry VIII's reign, one of the major factors they divorced was due to Catherine not being able to give Henry an heir to the Tudor throne.
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What is the famous rhyme for Henry VIII and his wives?
Why do you keep portraying Catherine with dark hair? She was described as being fair haired and blue eyed.
Divorced Beheaded died divorced Beheaded survived.
@@Sally_30 she was a Light brown that sorta Looked reddish.
Catherine of Aragon to Anne Boleyn
“Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn
Please don't take him just because you can
Your beauty is beyond compare
With silky locks of raven hair
With ivory skin and eyes of smoldering black
Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your skin is soft like summer rain
And I cannot compete with you
Anne Boleyn
He talks about you in his sleep
And there's nothing I can do to keep
From crying when he calls your name
Anne Boleyn
And I can easily understand
How you could easily take my King
But you don't know what he means to me
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn
Please don't take him just because you can
You could have your choice of men
But I could never love again
He's the only one for me
Anne Boleyn
I had to have this talk with you
My happiness depends on you
And whatever you decide to do
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn
Please don't take him even though you can
Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn”
Gacha Horselover catherine was probably like no way
Can you imagine how different history would be if Henry had excepted Mary as an heir and trained her to rule instead of discarding her
She would not be an unfortunate woman with physical abuse.
The stuart dynasty might be on the throne way faster ??
Mary the first would had no heirs, elizabeth would not born as a legitimate heir at least. And mary stuart would had took the throne
I think the other question is, can we imagine how different history would have been if Mary's older brother hadn't died as baby. If he had lived, then maybe Henry wouldn't have felt so much need to change everything in his pursuit of a son.
The Tudor Dynasty would've ended, And England would have became A Satellite State for the Habsburgs.
@@clao4058 I think Mary the First could have children if she Henry's heir. I guess she just did have any child because she was old to conceive when she married. If she was the heir since the beginning, it's sure Henry would marry her when she was a teen. Probably it wouldn't be with Phillip, maybe with her cousin James V of Scotland or Henry II of France or a Habsburg prince/archeduke.
The postpartum depression, and the sheer toll of all those pregnancies on Catherine's poor body in an era of questionable perinatal care must have been unbearable at best. Not to mention the pressure placed on women in general to bear a son as opposed to daughters, who were undervalued and used as marriage commodity. Added to that is the King's freedom to be overtly promiscuous without being accused of treason against the Queen. It's truly a wonder that brave woman kept her sanity through so much adversity.
Truth.
Maybe they should have waitef instead of keeping trying consecutively...
@@aborgeshonorato I don't think that would have occurred to them in those days and I also don't think Henry was a particularly considerate husband.
@@dianekeane7740 I agree with you on the fact that he was a womanizer.
Thank you for comenting 👍
Actually I feel for the Queen Catherine and also later Mary.
They really suffered.
Plus the fact that she DID have a few sons but they died.
imagine losing so many babies :/
Sadly it was quite common during those days as they didn’t have proper medicine
Still happens now sadly
Yep
My mom did. It was very sad.
💔💔💔💔🥺
I think we overlook the trauma that losing three children (born but died soon after) would have on Catherine and Henry, not to mention all the still births which are also traumatic. Henry had to deal with it somehow and I think blaming Catherine was the only way he could think to survive it. It doesn't excuse him but may explain some of his desperation.
I think it broke him, mentally. officially 5 children were lost(which would alresdy be greatly traumatic), but there could have been more than 5.
Catherine of Aragon went through so much in her life . RIP beautiful queen of England ❤️
Indeed, she was raised to be a future royal wife and when she was engaged to arther she was a great catch, a daughter of 2 powerful ruling monarch's, but when arther died it changed, Henry 7 chaged his mind but kept Catherine as his prisoner in case they invaded and then pressured Henry 8 to marry her, Henry didnt want to but to make a alliance with a grow thing super power... he had no choice
She was a faithful, totally devoted partner to Henry...and he threw that gift away. What happened to her, and their daughter...was beyond despicable. Mary was a dutiful daughter that deserved a loving, and nurturing Father...and History has been so unkind to that child/teenager/mature woman...and then....to want love...to want a child..to want a loving husband...and she gets a user philanderer, in the likes of Philip of Spain. She only wanted love, as she gave love,....and finally (outrageously) dies of Ovarian Cancer. I have always prayed that she would find Karma in the Resurrection. Both she and her mother. To this day, both their graves visited by those that knew both her mother and herself as such victims of their day and age...leave flowers, and notes of love for them...to this very day. They both deserve at least that....RIP, both of you!
She wasn't very pretty.
@@RoseRose-bn1js My mom was the most beautiful
@@misrosefromeverywhere3673 Of course your mother is beautiful
Why are you saying katherine "failed" to give the king a son? ! Mother has no role play in the gender of the new baby. It all depends on father's X or Y.
That was the beliefs at the time though so they are using how people back then would have seen it
@@TheFellowshipoftheCats yeah I got it..
It is so obvious why, but you have chosen to get triggered.
Because as we all know these were times of science and practical common sense.
Sadly they were not aware of the role men play in gender. Sadly their are places in 2020 that still blame women for not having sons
Henry was rolling in his grave when the world realized it’s the father who determined the gender, not the mother.
Poor Catherine, such a beautiful queen. She didn’t deserve to be treated this way!
Ironically, judging from her portraits, I thought Catherine of Aragon was King Henry's most beautiful wife.
I agree with both of you 💕💕
@@Elly3981 Thank you :)
@@Elly3981 I agree. her protrait was soft and elegant and all in all I think she was a timeless beauty
@@lindleloverwatterson3484 Henry didn't deserve her. He didn't deserve any of his wives. The man was a disgusting, evil worm.
A Hungarian King made it so his daughter could rule easier. Henry just didn't have any imagination as to let Mary rule as a queen.
It's not that Henry VIII lacked imagination but rather as this video points out every time a woman tried to rule England prior it ended in a civil war. Henry VIII's ancestor, Henry I, tried to make his daughter his successor and went as far as to make all the nobles swear loyalty to her but they still took the throne from Matilda after Henry I's death. It led to a civil war called the anarchy that lasted nearly 20 years. Henry VIII's father had finally stabilized the country after another similarly brutal civil war (that was partially started because Margaret of Anjou tried to rule cause her husband was nuts), so Henry VIII was keen to keep the country from going through another civil war and keep the dynasty going.
@@sliverscreencritic Nah he just didn't want his house name erased.
@@shukhada6664 both because matilda and he afraid his dynasty goes extinct and England rule by Habsburg
Henry did love princess Mary in the beginning and treated her well and spoiled her. But his behavior changed after his accident and his obsession with a son and control - he mistreated that poor girl.
Nah. He suffered the injury after marrying Anne Boleyn (after Katherine's death). He was mistreating Mary from way before that
@@tasi4372 the accident of 1536 was not his first accident, the jousting accident of 1524 he was struck in the head by a jousting lance after this incident he would be plagued by migraines for the rest of his life
@@parissanders1800 and most likely had a traumatic brain injury/damage that altered his personality. Still happens to this day.
Can you imagine if the kings would have just accepted their daughters as the precious gifts that all children are? What a difference it would have made!
The end of the Tudor dynasty
@@oshb5559 I never understood that, suppose the King makes a daughter the queen and she marries into another royal house and they had two sons wouldn't it be possible to have the firstborn rule his father's Kingdom and the younger one his mother's, I get that none of this is guarateed to happen and looks like a fairy tale but it was possible
@@valkyrie-in-black-coat actually happened with isabel of castile
The actress who plays Catherine is gorgeous.
Kings in the past are the real playboys.
Only some of them were not playboys ;3
Oof
feel terrible for her...difficult to lose so.many babies
Catherine of Aragon, daughter of KINGS “beloved Queen of England” ... she was such an intelligent and brilliant woman.
Catherine of Aragon had RED hair. Why do people continue to portray her as a dark-haired Spanish woman with brown eyes? She wasn't! She had red hair and blue eyes.
Did you see her in live?
@@politreg4356 Isabel & Catherine were also Lancasters. They were of light hair & light eyes, the dark hair came from Ferdinand but Catherine was known for taking after her mother.
It is seen in her portraits. She had it from her English royal ancestors -
As she was double descended from John of Gaunt and had a better claim to the English throne than he did.
@@politreg4356 yes. She's been my best friend while in kindergarten
Original description of Catherine says her hair was red-gold. And even some credible historians rewritten it as auburn into their books, but obviously it was supposed to mean reddish-gold.
Golden strawberry blond hair are obvious in SIttow' potraits. (those not photoshoped after spanish princess aired). Also one by Sittow is not photoshopped but has discoloured varnish on and hence hair looks way more ginger than it should.
By the way I don't at all agree with 'reidentification' by Mr Mathews, who claims it is Mary Rose Tudor. French hood with frill ending so low and he claims it was from 1510s? Clueless!
The researchers couldn't even be bothered to check basic facts. Catherine was 32 when her last child was born, not in her late 30s.
They didn't even mentioned that infection after her first child was born. Even thought it is probably why later on she lost more kids without apparent reason.
Who is here after watching the Spanish princess on Tv
The scripture that Henry took from the bible to justify his divorce is a key example of men twisting the bible to their own advantage. For the scripture was meant in the case of if the mans brother is still alive. Henry's brother was long dead before he took his wife. So its a completely different concept
And besides that, Christians don't live under the Law of Moses. So that rule was utterly moot.
Plus he has an affair with Anne Boleyn's sister so that would have been considered the same as marrying his brother's wife.
Men have always used religion to their advantage. All religions have been by men and for men. And all religions have treated women badly.
The bible is full of contradictions. Anyone can find any convenient excuse for doing what they want just by reading that book.
@@8698gil you make bold statements without evidence to support it. You’re just as hypocritical as those twisting scripture!
She may not have looked exactly like the real Catherine, though I really like the actress who played her in The Tudors
The longest survivors were always girls 🤣
They still are!!! Like Queen Elizabeth1, Victoria & Queen Elizabeth #2
@MUHAMMAD SHEHARYAR
*Ahem* Queen Elizabeth the 1st?
5:33 Katherine was 33 when she had her last pregnancy yet the narrator says she was in her late 30s, 33 is not late 30s.
More so cuz most women now have babies 35+
My mom have had me at 38 and I survived, but my brother died before when she was 37.
Maybe at that time 34 -37 wastoo late
@@aborgeshonorato it was more risk for both mother and child. It's why the mortality rate was so low.
Unlike now, where it's still dangerous for health reasons if you are over 35, at least there are medicines that help.
Catherine was ginger or blonde like her mother, Isabel of Castille. Many Spanish have pale skin and, in the North Atlantic coast there are many blonde or red haired people with blue or green eyes. Most of my family are like that, and not black haired or dark skinned people. That's a stereotype from the Romantic period. In the North we have Celtic and Germanic ancestors.
Catherine of Aragon also had English blood. She was the descendant of John of Gaunt's first two wives, Blanche of Lancaster and Constanza of Portugal.
@@lingabella3547, haha, well there are many redheads in Northern Spain. In fact the most genetically similar to Irish in Europe are Asturians, in the North of Spain. Queen Isabel, was blonde. There are many blonde people in Spain. Stereotypes are always due to either ignorance or oversimplification
The term is strawberry blond. It's hair in between red and blond. In her case her hair were trully golden.
Exactly. Many of my friends who are Hispanic are blonde .
Am I the only one who thinks King Henry looks just like Ed Sheeran?!
I'm pretty sure the actor played Billy in Eastenders
Henry should have treated my daughter better instead of insisting on having a son and she could be a great queen.
I didn't know they had all those son's that died. How sad
It could have been a male genetic condition
@@sunshinecarmen2028 Most likely infection of uterus after the 1st stillbirth(which documentary didn't mention at all) was the root cause for loosing rest of the children.
@maearcher4721 but after the first birth she had 2 babies who survived their birth
He was desperate for a son.
He got what was coming to him when he messed with the boleyn sisters
They couldn't find a actress that at least resembled Catherine?
Catherine had a far complexion with red hair and blue eyes.
Why do people think that everyone whose native language is Spanish looks like people from Central and South America?
Spanish is a European language and the residents are European.
Lots of blonde and red haired fair complexed people with green or blue eyes.
You made me your wife so I’ll be queen till the end of my life nnnnnnnnnnnnn no way there’s no way
N N N NA NA NA NA NO NO WAYYYYYYY
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WAYYYYYYYYYYYY there's No no no no no no no no no way!
Rip Catherine of Aragon may you be at peace ❤️❤️
Who else had backround knowledge from Six?
Me
I love Queen Katherine so much 💕💕💕 she deserved the world
In real life Catherine is redhead right?
Yes
No. Not Catherine of Aragon. She was sent away and she was kept away from her daughter until her death. Henry divorced her but it really was not since the pope did not approve the divorce.
Raquel M ??? She’s asking for Catherine hair color, not Catherine Howard’s. Catherine of Aragon hair was blonde-Ish/reddish.
Blonde-Ish mixture with a reddish mix.
@@brooke6549 Quite true! A lot of people from Spain are very light. My grandmother came from Barcelona, Spain. She had light blond hair, ice-blue eyes, and white skin.
Catalina of Aragon, Spanish born and bred princess and Queen of England.
She was a red head too
If Henry had read his bible more, he would have seen the one that would have allowed him stay married to Catherine. Either that or he intentionally misinterpreted the verse
It was intended, he was well versed in the Bible, but this is Protestant view on history because they always forget the the Bible also said to have the brother marry his brother’s widow. Catherine was a Catholic and the English hate Catholics.
@@MrSophire right. Since there was that verse, you wonder if he just ignored it because Leviticus more or less served his purpose and the clergy were too afraid to bring up the verse that legitimized his marriage to Catherine
@@MrSophire at the time of the divorce the whole of England was Catholic so you are wrong - the English did not hate Catholics then.
@@jen9774 the history writers were protestants
Legit wife and queen
If only Catherine had had the freedom to choose a man of her choosing to marry, rather being forced to marry boys. Sadly, she was never given that freedom and her grief was increased three-fold.
Well when they married they weren't childless. They had Mary
Just shows you..riches cannot give one peace and happiness.
This is BS. Her first pregnancy was lost at 6 months but she was told it was twins and one was still alive. Her belly was swollen for months with infection. No baby came at 9 months.... not a still birth.
That was Katherine's daughter Mary. She had the phantom pregnancy, not Katherine of Aragon
@@faithallen5326 It wasn't a phantom pregnancy it was a stillbirth at 6 months. Doctors told her it was a twin pregnancy and one baby was still alive but they were wrong... The continued swelling of her belly after the stillbirth turned out to be an infection... not a twin baby. Mary was never pregnant to begin with. Her swollen belly was also most likely an infection but could of also been an ovarian tumor.
@Levi Blevins this is what happens when you try to pretend you’re a historian and you end up looking like an idiot... read a book on occasion
@@tuckerrandle9239 Ummmm.... I did read this in a book... By Claire Ridgeway. She has a Masters Degree in English history and has written several books on the Tudors... and created the Anne Boleyn Files and The Tudor society TH-cam channels. She spent years pouring over original documents from contemporary witness accounts to gather research for her books.... They are almost exclusively what she relies on for historical accuracy. Sooooo.... Gonna take her word on the account she gives of Katherine's first failed pregnancy.
@Levi Blevins then she’s smarter than all the other historians who have spent just as much time studying and researching the Tudor dynasty... or she’s mistaken... or you’re confusing your monarchs
I’ve been watching these for the past hour or 2 and couldn’t pin point where I recognised Henry’s actor from. Just realised he played bradley in eastenders
I hate how they usually portray K of A with dark hair when she was said to have auburn/red hair.
Well, imagine- if all of Katherine's babies had survived!
The actress playing catherine is so beautiful..♥️
They are not going to mention the infection after first stillbirth? Or that both Henry and Catherine hoped there was 2nd baby up to at least March? That infection is probably root cause of Catherine's later issues! Also the 4 people who knew, didn't include midwives. Which might have been why the infection lasted that long. Only after Catherine entered confinment in March, the swealling disappeared.
Not to sound horrible but she lucked out.
Its bradley from eastenders playing henry viii lol
I thought that too and no one else said it! Xx
So you read a bible verse that I'm cursed
'cause I was your brother's wife.
You say it's a pity 'cause quoting Leviticus
"I'll end up kidiless all my life".
well, daddy weren't you there, when I gave birth to Mary
"Hi baby~" (daughters are so easy to forget)
@@sophiaerinnmape1678 Your just so full of Sh- must think that I’m naïve
@@hamiltonhyla I won’t stand down won’t shh and no I’ll never leeeaaaave
@@rhearaj4786 You must think that I'm crazy
You wanna replace me baby
@@rosemagic3987 there’s no no no no no no no way
The real Catherine of Aragon was said to
have strawberry blonde hair but for some reason she is always cast as having brown or black hair.
Can I get SpongeBob in the next one mate I’ll be in to see
Why isnt this on My5?
Catherine of Aragon to Anne Boleyn
“Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn
Please don't take him just because you can
Your beauty is beyond compare
With silky locks of raven hair
With ivory skin and eyes of smoldering black
Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your skin is soft like summer rain
And I cannot compete with you
Anne Boleyn
He talks about you in his sleep
And there's nothing I can do to keep
From crying when he calls your name
Anne Boleyn
And I can easily understand
How you could easily take my King
But you don't know what he means to me
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn
Please don't take him just because you can
You could have your choice of men
But I could never love again
He's the only one for me
Anne Boleyn
I had to have this talk with you
My happiness depends on you
And whatever you decide to do
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn
Please don't take him even though you can
Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn”
@Zhou • Meigui he made it himself
@Zhou • Meigui it’s a parody on joleen
Except that Catherine was said to be more beautiful
@@tudorprincess9169 Exactly!
I never understood why they didn't expect women to make great leaders as queen. I mean, why did they always expect a son?
In England the last queens to rule without a king beside them sent England in civil war. Plus Son's carry the name. Daughters get adopted into anothers family. Religiously speaking once you as a woman marry your husband you are adopted into his family and thus take his name.
Nowadays women can keep their names or hyphen. Back then women were given into the care of her husband and his family.
A combo of sexism and the patriarchy to make it short. England had male primogeniture meaning that the eldest son came to the throne.
@@sliverscreencritic it was because without a male heir the Tudor dynasty would have ended and England would have became a satellite state to whoever foreign ruler married his eldest daughter Mary if he considered mary his heir apparent
He....was... gentle?
I swear the actor playing Henry played Billy in Eastenders
They look nothing alike
What an amazing Queen!
What documentary is this???
Pregnant what the hell
Oh he’s at Sudeley!
Strictly speaking, they didn’t divorce. The marriage was annulled, as Henry claimed that it had been illegal in the first place.
And incidentally, Katherine was blonde.
Strawberry blond. With hair like liquid gold.
4:04 That is inaccurate. The real order is here below:
1. Tudor (1516) stillborn at almost 8 months
2. Henry Tudor (1511) lived almost 2 months
3. Henry Tudor (1513) lived a few hours
4. Tudor (1514) stillborn at 8 months
5. Mary I (1516-1558)
6. Tudor (1528) stillborn at 8 months
No
*No way starts playing*
😭
The passage from Leviticus is about having an affair with one’s sister in law. Deuderomomy states that a man should in fact marry his brother’s widow instead of her marrying outside the family
This is horrific…
Show?
So not to be rude but he fell in love with Mary Boleyn first and slept with her then he fell on love with Anne Boleyn
Did the King always name the children?
Maybe, just maybe they let the mother to recover from her previous pregnancies she wouldn’t have had stillborns. Henry lived by Henry wants, Henry gets but not even him can go against nature. If the mother’s organism is not recovered how she is supposed to carry and give birth to a healthy child and more in those tomes when even the queens lost children because malnutrition or just simply not a proper diet not talking about a difficult delivery add to this the fact that she didn't even had time to recover her strength from past pregnancies. But obviously the wife is always to blame.
That too didn't help, but the documentary skipped 6+weeks long infection in belly after her 1st stillbirth. The main cause of problems to come was that infection. It damaged her uterus.
3:24 That son was also stillborn.
Three women? Only one I know of is Matilda.
Isabella of France married to Edward II and Margaret of Anjou married to Henry VI. I think those are the ones they are talking about because at some point this two wives took over ruling for their husbands and both times did't end up well.
@@josyshen2535 Matilda, daughter of Henry I was before them. Her reign resulted in war.
@@gidzmobug2323 I know so I think Matilda, Margaret of Anjou and Isabella of France are the 3 women they are talking about I think.
There’s a disease that can affect male baby’s, it runs on the male’s side of the family usually. I wonder if that was the case for all the miscarriages of his sons. Yes a few lived for a while but many didn’t. Maybe that’s not the case but I just wonder if it was.
I feel so bad for all of his wives.
Anne of Austria had her first living child around 37.
So ? This is not Anne of Austria-This is the dog Catherine.
NO WAY😱
the queendom
The royal woman in that time is like machine an incubator specializes only of giving birth of a boy an heir
I feel that Henry had a form of infertility
He had a rare blood condition that made it near impossible for his wives to carry children to full term.
Catherine was not like in the documentary (a stereotype of a Spanish woman) she had gold-red hair and blue eyes, that's partly why Mary was redhead and blue eyed.
She was the only women who gave him a boy Catherine he let her go escape she was engage to another man in love Henry kidnap her
Ok, but why did he let her leave instead of beheading her?
Katherine was a foreign princess, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabel. Her family in the Spain would have raged war if she was beheaded.
@@iceprincess1898 @PrincessWithInnerBeauty And also her nephew was the most powerful man in Europe, the Holy Roman Emperor. If he executed KoA, Henry will not be just at war with Spain, but also against Holy Roman Empire.
Because Charles V would've come down on him like a tonne of bricks if he executed his aunt.
If that boy would've lived history would've been a lot different...specifically no Queen Elizabeth.
Hello
It was the custom at that time that the should have male heirs but however Henry had Elizabeth to rule .And as they say it was the golden age in britain .Elizabeth showed that even women can lead
Its weird to think that the trajectory of Henry's six wives all started with the fact that society was built on sexism so strong that it couldn't fathom a woman being the heir...
You are delusional and lack insight if you really think that..
@@mcmilk107 She’s right. Had Henry recognised Mary as his heir, history would have been much different and he most likely wouldn’t have annulled his marriage to Katherine of Aragon. The reason why Henry didn’t give her The Princess of Wales title and tried to get a male heir, was because not only did the Tudors have a weak claim to the throne but also he believed that people wouldn’t want a woman ruling the country and would have started a civil war in favour of Yorkist claimants. All of which didn’t happen neither to Mary nor Elizabeth. Henry was too paranoid.
I wish they had known back then how genetics works and that health care had been better. It was your swimmers Henry!
i think henry did love Catherine for a while until Anne Boleyn.
Didn’t Deuteronomy say the opposite of Leviticus?
I wonder why her babies kept dying??
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
What three women tried to rule England as Quene?
Mathilda, Isabella of France, and Margaret of Anjou.
Bradley Branning from Eastenders
Many people dont realise Catherine was 10 years older than henry, it was vital that henry 8 had to marry her as she was not only a princess of Spain but a daughter of two powerful monarchs, hence the alliance between england and then argon/castle was important to keep the peace, they were married for over 20 years but it was unusual for him to only have one living child from this marriage compared to the other monarch's st the time.
He was encouraged to have mistresses as it showed he was fertile and the problem was with the wife... not the husband (how ironic)
Henry is such a peculiar case... he genuinely loved carherine and mary but like the video stated...... any woman who tried to claim the throne ended in civil war
Mary was even made princess of Wales, the title for the heir of the throne
I feel that as he lacked any other children as well, should anything happen to mary it would be hush as bad.
The risk of women dieing in child birth was 1 out of 3 sometimes.
If mary was a queen.... it may not have helped but as history is seen she did get "pregnant" but there was no baby.
Katherine was not 1O years older than henry, she was just 5 years older. And Henry didn't have to marry her. He wanted to marry her. It was a love match, not an arranged marriage. Four years before he married Katherine, Henry's father broke this son's engagement with Katherine and had Henry engaged to Eleanor of Austria, who was even more powerful than Katherine because she was part of the Spanish royal family, and she was also the granddaughter of the holy roman emperor, whereas Katherine was only part of the Spanish royal family. Henry would have gotten 2 major alliances by marrying Eleanor, but he only wanted Katherine. When his father died, Henry broke his engagement with Eleanor and married Katherine. I agree with you that he genuinely loved her and Mary. If only she'd had a son 😭😭
She was 5 or 6 years older than him at the time that they got married in 1509 Henry 8th was 17 turning 18 and catherine of Aragon was 23 years old
Catherine was 51/2 years older than Henry, and a Papal Dispensation was needed, as Catherine had been married to Arthur, Henry's older brother. The Pope would've probably granted an annulment, had he not been under the control of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, and was Catherine's nephew. Henry made himself Head of the Church of England, to secure his annulment(not divorce). In fact, in Henry's eyes, only his marriages to Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr, were legal.
the queen of france at that time was Henry the 8th sister and anne stayed long after the "queen" returned home. so the new kings SISTEE took Anne under her wing
Catherine was a redhead like him. Not all Spanish people have black hair and moreno skin.
Well if she was not that proud her daughter would not suffer, and there would not be separation from church...
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Pray to SoG Catherine of Aragon and petition the Vatican to make her a saint!