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From: "Dave Napier" <>
Subject: Re: Legal marriages
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 12:01:29 +0100
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Well, that's roughly it... but he actually wanted to annul his
marriage to Catherine on the grounds that she had previously been
married to his older brother Arthur ..... he wasn't tired of
Catherine, he would have been quite happy to stay married to her and
continue to spread his genes through the normal unofficial channels
but he needed a male heir and after 18 years it was clear that
Catherine wasn't going to come up with the goods. Unfortunately, the
pope wasn't about to let him have his annulment and upset the King of
Spain (or the King of France for that matter.)

Dave Napier


----- Original Message -----
From: "AEnone McRae-Clift" <>
To: <>
Sent: 03 September 2000 12:05
Subject: Re: Legal marriages


> Hi Punkin,
> Maybe my history is a little rusty, but I always thought that the
formation
> of the (eventual)Church of England (now Anglican) was due to rotten
old
> Henry 8 being besotted by Anne Boleyn, tired of Catherine and then
the Pope
> wouldn't grant him a divorce. So he said "***#@! to you" and formed
his own
> church and gave himself a divorce.
> Someone straighten me out, please??
> AEnone in Tasmania.
>

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