Today in history, on May 23rd, 1533, the exact time when King Henry VIII began to consider the annulment of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon was not clear, although the court rumors at that time indicated that this idea may have entered the king's mind as early as 1520. More specific information shows that in 1524, when the king learned from the court doctor that Catherine could no longer have children, he began to seriously consider giving birth to an old woman to his first wife. You see, like many monarchs, King Henry's obsession with having sons is almost ridiculous. Obviously, he couldn't stand Catherine's obstinacy in giving birth to a girl after several miscarriages in 15 15. As a king, in fact, at that time, many men with status were used to doing this except playing hay with their wives. Henry had a mistress, Catherine's maid, mary boleyn, on 1920 15. It is said that this incident led to at least two children being raised by the king, but Henry himself denied that Mary's two children were his own.

When two children are considered better, of course, three is the best. 1527, King Henry began to woo Mary's sister. It is reported that Anne refused Henry's proposal and accepted the advice of another future queen named Beyonce, refusing to give him what he wanted unless he put on a ring.

So Henry instructed his best biblical scholar to find a loophole in the Bible and let him divorce Catherine, so that he could get along with Anne.

Finally, such a loophole was found in Leviticus chapter 20, section 16. Part of this section reads: "If a man marries his brother's wife, he is unclean; He exposed his brother's nakedness; They won't have children. "

If you want to know how this applies to Henry, we should probably mention that Catherine is his dead brother, Arthur's ex-wife, and she eventually became Henry's wife, partly because of the dispute over the return of a considerable dowry given by her parents when she married Arthur. ...

Henry thinks this means that his marriage is cursed, pointing out that he lacks male heirs as evidence. The Pope still didn't believe it and refused to divorce Henry. Henry was very angry. He asked the Archbishop of Canterbury to declare his marriage with Catherine null and void on May 23rd 1533, even though he had secretly married anne boleyn in June 1533.

Not surprisingly, this caused a split between the king and the Pope, and triggered some events, which finally freed Britain from the shackles of Catholic rule-all because King Henry had a soft spot for his wife's friends.

In the end, it was of no use to poor Annie. Although she dutifully seems to be pregnant immediately after their secret marriage (or maybe before that, which is why the so-called secret marriage took place long before his divorce), she boldly gave birth to a girl and then had a series of miscarriages.

At the same time, Anne made many enemies in court, and they began to plot against her. She was arrested on 1536 and charged with adultery (of course, no one seems to mind the king doing the same-it's good to be king) and * * (people can only imagine that if there is a little truth, the king who used to treat her sister as a mistress is undoubtedly happy ...). In addition, she was accused of plotting against the king. To be fair, if that is true, we are not sure that we will blame her for it.

Her real crime, of course, is not giving birth to a son. Finally, she was found guilty and beheaded.

Interestingly, shortly before the execution of the judgment in May 1536, her marriage with King Henry was declared invalid because he claimed that he had never legally married her. After all, you have married one person, how can you marry another?