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Henry VIII

By martxmoontilla_08
  • Jun 28, 1491

    Birth

    Birth
    Henry VII and Elizabeth of York gave birth Henry VIII in the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich.
  • Period: 1501 to 1533

    Catherine of Aragon

    They got married two months after the death of his father. They had 5 kids, 3 of them died before they were born. One of them died 53 days after he was born. Only one of the 4 children survived. It was a girl called Mary.
    They were happy with their marriage, but suddenly, one day Henry VIII changed his mind and decided to divorce from Catherine by telling the Pope to find out if they were cursed because almost all of their kids died.
    They divorced in 1533.
  • 1502

    Death of his mother

    Death of his mother
    His mother died when he was only an eleven-year-old boy.
  • 1509

    Death of his father

    Death of his father
    He died unexpectedly a few months after the death of his newborn son and his wife, who was the real love of his life.
  • Period: 1533 to 1536

    Anne Boleyn

    They had an affair that Catherine didn't know. Soon afterwards, Anne and Henry divorced and after that, he told Anne to marry him. She accepted the proposal as she didn't want to give birth to children outside marriage. A child was born some years after the wedding. It was a girl called Elizabeth.
    Henry accused Anne of incest and adultery because he was concerned that she might be having sex with her brother. Both were beheaded.
  • Period: 1536 to 1537

    Jane Seymour

    She was the only wife that Henry actually loved. Some months after their wedding, she gave birth to a boy called Edward. He was the heir to the throne, therefore he was called Prince Edward. She died after giving birth to her son.
  • Period: 1540 to 1542

    Kathryn Howard

    They married two days after Henry’s divorce from Anne. They had a two-month affair before.
    Kathryn didn’t like Henry’s body, so she looked for ‘love entertainments’. Henry didn’t know about this, but one day, he discovered everything and she was accused of adultery and, as a consequence, she was beheaded in 1542.
  • Period: Jan 6, 1540 to Jul 7, 1540

    Anne of Cleves

    She was the fourth wife of Henry VIII.
    In 1540, the King asked a painter to portray Anne of Cleves and her sister, because they were both candidates to be his wife, but he didn’t know them.
    He liked Anne’s portrait, but when he saw her in person, he didn’t like her physical appearance. They divorced some months later, in July. Therefore, her reign lasted only 7 months.
  • Period: 1543 to 1547

    Katherine Parr

    She was Henry’s last wife. They got married in 1543. She took care of Elisabeth and Ed, as well as Henry, who was severely ill. When Henry died four years later, she was widowed, but she decided to remarry an old lover. She died a year later while she was giving birth.
  • 1547

    Death

    Death
    Henry VIII died in 1547. Some say that he died because of the ulcerated leg caused by his obesity, whereas some others think that he had congenital syphilis. Henry was buried next to his true love, Jane Seymour, at Windsor castle.