Wolf Hall's latest episode introduced us to King Henry VIII's fourth bride, Anne of Cleves, who was married to the monarch for just six months before he decided to annul the union. At the time ...
In 1540, King Henry VIII changed the law to allow first-cousin marriage so he could wed Catherine Howard. Since then, the practice has been legal in Britain, but a furore broke out this week when ...
became King Henry VIII. Soon after he obtained the papal dispensation required to allow him to marry his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon. In the first years of his reign Henry VIII ...