Henry VIII and the Church of England

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Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s so he could divorce and remarry, creating the Church of England with the monarch as its head. He is also remembered for having six wives.

Memory tip: Six wives' fates: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

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Why did Henry VIII break away from the Church of Rome?

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