RE: OT: Royalty talk

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Mon, 7 May 2007, David Harley wrote:

> > This makes it even more interesting to me - and especially so 
> > now that my wife and I are hooked on that "Tutors" show on 
> > Showtime. In it, the queen is The Queen even though she was 
> > only a Spanish princess before marrying The King of England 
> > (good ol' Henry VIII). 
>
> Henry VIII's queens were queens consort, not joint monarchs. They had the
> title but not the power.
>
> > Also, this Henry was a Tudor and 
> > wasn't he the one that formed the Church of England?
>
> Correct and correct. Basically because the Church of Rome wouldn't endorse
> his changing consorts in midstream, as I remember.

I think it was a whole lot more comlicated than that. Certainly that's 
what I was taught in History at school, but I think there must have been, 
at that time, a major groundswell of anti-catholic feeling in England.


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