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Henry VIII is one of England‘s best-known monarchs. Charismatic and extravagant, his reign lasted nearly 39 years.
Henry enacted radical changes to the English constitution, expanded royal power and broke with the Catholic Church in the English Reformation.
But he is perhaps most famous for having six wives. Though married to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, for nearly 25 years, Henry’s next five marriages lasted less than that combined.
Best remembered in rhyme form; ‘divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived’; two of Henry VIII’s marriages were declared annulled, two of his wives were beheaded and another of them died after giving birth to his only son. But his final wife, Catherine Parr, outlived him and their marriage.
