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So let's get right into it. Today, we are going to talk about

love dissolving because it is still love month. I'm going to do this. It's still love month.

And we're going to talk about when love goes bad and tutor divorces. Because there were some

precedents for even for Henry and his divorces.

There had been monarchs who had annulments. Of course, it wasn't divorce as we consider it now.

It was more of an annulment. Marriage itself was indissoluble, but you could say that the marriage never

took place. So there were precedents for that. There had been a French king who put his wife aside

when he wanted to marry someone younger. There had been a French king who put his wife aside when he

wanted to marry someone younger. That had happened just 20, 30 years before Henry's Great Matter.

So there had been precedent for it. And of course, because of what Henry did during his reign,

it sort of changed. That mixed with the growing Renaissance humanism and the focus on

this life being important as opposed to just being a practice for the next life and people

deserving to be happy in this life and kind of thinking about what that even meant, it definitely

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