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Hello and welcome back to Epox.

If you remember last time we've been talking all about the life and the reign of Henry

the 8th, the great Henry the 8th.

So if you recall last time, we got up to sort of the point in his life, probably the most

important, well, maybe not the most important, but the most famous part of his life, where he was putting his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, who was married

to for 20 years, putting her aside, trying to get a divorce and annulment of his marriage to her

so that he can move on to somebody else, and that his eye had fallen on Anne Berlin, one of the nieces of the Duke of Norfolk.

And so all of that is wrapped up in the disgrace of Cardinal Woolsey,

and Cardinal Woolsey's pretty timely death around that same time.

So we'll pick up the story with all of that. And as I say, it's probably

one of the most well-documented, most famous bits of Henry's life and reign. Because as well,

if you remember, we started talking about last time, it's all wrapped up with the break with Rome

and England becoming a Protestant country.

One thing to say, before we talk about that,

is that that was quite a complicated thing.

Henry was a difficult person, if you haven't gathered already.

It's very clear, isn't it? He's a difficult person, a dangerous, changeable person.

And so even very late in his reign, towards the end of his

life, sometimes someone would say something, they would say something Protestant. And he would

explode with anger and say, no, we're a Catholic country, I'm a Catholic, even though he's been

living as legally as a type of Protestant for years. So you might ask,

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