It had to happen, lol. If not with Henry VIII then…eventually.
There’s also a lot of It Was The Dumbest Thing Henry Could Have Ever Done rhetoric and like, eh…the distance from the Vatican was pretty long. It wasn’t like he lived in a country right on their borders as he gave them the middle finger, so…
He also wasn’t technically wrong in invoking the ancient rights of kings. The Church used to not intervene in royal annulments at all:
“before the pontificate of Innocent III, royal marriages were commonly dissolved without papal intervention and it appears that no law existed requiring such an action”
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