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If you remember last time we were talking all about Henry the 8th.

So we should just continue the story straight from there.

If you remember last time we would got up to the point basically where Woolsey is the most powerful man in the country under the king himself.

And we talked a little bit, didn't we all about the power dynamic

relationships between France, Spain, Imperial Spain and England. And how we're just beginning

to get up to the point where Henry realises that he really wants needs a son and that his

wife, Catherine of Aragon, isn't going to be able to give him one, but he

can't divorce her or have his marriage annulled because, well, it's the 16th century and they're

Catholics, and only the Pope could give him that, and the Pope's not going to give him that,

because the Pope is under the control of the Spanish, who is related to Catherine of

Aragon, so they just won't, that's not going to happen. So this is the whole point,

this is probably the most famous part, isn't it, of the story of Henry the 8th, all to do with

getting rid of his old wife, one way or another, finding a new wife and trying to sire a son

with her. So should we just pick up the story?

As always, I'm reading from Professor Sir Charles Oman, a late 19th century, early 20th century

professor of history from Oxford University, one of the best to ever do it, a gold standard.

And Sir Winston Churchill and his history of the English-speaking people who borrows heavily from Sir Charles Oman,

but we also get a fair few more details and Churchill is a great prose writer, isn't he?

So I should be reading for both of those.

All right, let's pick up the story with a little bit of Professor Oman, who wrote,

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