Support came from the Catholic Church endorsing his authority. When Henry VIII came to power upon his father’s death in 1509, he was 18, and his first act was to marry Catherine of Aragon.

With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation ...

Henry VIII] I have no heir. My subjects are in rebellion. My coffers are empty and my cradle empty too. - Henry was under great pressure politically from the Roman Catholic Church who were still ...

Henry VIII even commissioned a Bible in response, the Great Bible of 1539. When Mary I ascended to the throne of England, she restored the Roman Catholic Church (Henry VIII had split away from it ...

Henry VIII was brought up as a devout Catholic. In the early years of his reign he attended mass five times a day and his most trusted adviser was the head of the Catholic Church in England ...

The visit to the Vatican is symbolic of efforts to build closer ties between the Catholic Church ... during the reign of King Henry VIII. Charles, who is head of the Church of England, made ...

Before Henry VIII's history-making break with the Catholic Church in 1534, English Kings had a link to ’St Paul Outside The Walls’, but no King or Queen has been there in the 500 years since.