In 1540, King Henry VIII changed the law to allow first-cousin ... Meanwhile, the view of the Catholic Church at the time was that marriage between first cousins was unacceptable.

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 ...

He broke away from the Catholic church to marry one of them ... It was always a story of Henry VIII and his wives The Tudors ...

Henry VIII wanted to cancel his first marriage to marry her, but the Catholic church refused to allow it, so he began to decrease Rome’s influence in England. After their secret wedding in 1532 ...

For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval ... raged with particular ferocity in England, where King Henry VIII wished to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, the ...