Henry the VIII was born on June twenty eighth, 1491 at Greenwich Palace, like all Tudor Monarchs. He was the third child and second son of King Henry VII. His other brothers and sisters had predeceased their own father. Only two sisters, Mary and Margaret Tudor survived. His brother, Arthur died in 1502 and his father, Henry VII, died in April twenty-second of 1509.
Due to the death of his brother and his father, Henry VIII accomplished the throne, obtaining the crown in 1509. He was mostly influenced by a poet named Skelton, who tutored him and taught him many things. King Henry VIII was married six times, but all his marriages sadly ended with a divorce, execution and death of illness. The first wife was Catherine of Aragon who was exiled from the Court.
Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded for treason. His third wife, Jane Seymour, died right after she was giving birth to a son, Prince Edward. The fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, was divorced with King Henry and she was later made into the King's honorable “sister”.
Katherine Howard stayed married only for eighteen months before she was beheaded for love affairs. Finally, Henry's last wife was Katherine Parr who outlived Henry and influenced his children; mostly Elizabeth I.
After the death of Henry, he was remembered as the “first English monarch to be educated under the influence of the Renaissance” and accomplished to be a scholar, linguist, musician, and athlete.
Because Henry wanted a son, Hen married six women. He married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Catherine was originally a wife of his brother, Arthur in 1501. After the death of Arthur, Henry and Catherine got married at the Grey Friars Church in Greenwich. Catherine was twenty-three and Henry was about eighteen years old when they got married.
They bore their first child on January thirty-first, 1510, a few months after marriage, but the baby was unable to survive at birth. Their second child was born on January first, 1511 and it was a boy. Henry planned many things for the boy, but sadly he died in two months. After Catherine's sixth child, she was getting old and bore no male heir. This was when Anne Boleyn attracted Henry. Although Catherine did not wish to divorce, Henry divorced her and married Anne Boleyn.
Anne Boleyn was an English noblewoman in her early twenties with long black hair and glorious dark eyes. She was slim, graceful, talented and witty, and totally mesmerized the King. Anne had been a lady-in-waiting to Henry's sister Mary, and was later a lady-in-waiting to Queen Catherine.
After Anne Boleyn's marriage, she became Queen from 1533 - 1536.
Unfortunately after the marriage, he was never happy with Anne but edgy and stressed. Also, Henry didn't like how much money the marriage had cost him. In the fall of 1533, Anne and Henry's first child was born. Sadly, for Henry's sake, it was a girl named Elizabeth. She soon became known as a powerful monarch. After Anne's final fail of giving birth to a child, he had enough of her. He sentenced Anne, truly innocent of all crimes, with treason which caused an execution, by beheading, of Anne Boleyn in 1536.
Before the Reformation, Henry VIII was married with Catherine of Aragon. She bore six children, but only one child survived who was soon known as Queen Mary I of England. Later, it became obvious that Catherine could not bear anymore children. The king made his own church, the Anglican church, to divorce the old lady and marry Anne Boleyn. Henry, with his obsession, tried to attempt their divorce from Pope Clements VII. When the Pope denied the divorce, Henry took all the churches wealth and then made himself the supreme head of the Church of England. He then married Anne himself while putting Catherine in exile from the court.
