- After Henry breaks all ties with the church and marries Anne, the Pope threatens him with excommunication and authorizes Anne's assassination.
- Henry destroys all ties with authority and the past. After many failed attempts to have his marriage to Catherine annulled by the Catholic Church, Henry's patience finally wears out and he marries Anne in secret, appoints his Lutheran chaplain Thomas Cranmer the head of the Church of England, and strips Katherine of her title and status of Queen. The king and new queen are disappointed that their first child is a girl, whom they christen Elizabeth.—Nicolettea
- Cranmer returns from Germany with his wife. With the death of the Archbishop of Canterbury, King Henry VIII has an opportunity to name a replacement who will formally announce his annulment to Queen Catherine. He proposes Cranmer and Pope Paul III endorses the appointment seeing Cranmer as an inconsequential nobody. The King names Thomas Cromwell as Chancellor to replace Sir Thomas More who resigned. The King marries Anne Boleyn and Cranmer announces that his first marriage to Catherine was invalid. Pope Paul III declares that the King's marriage to Anne is invalid and threatens to excommunicate him. The King proceeds with Anne's coronation but notes the absence of Sir Thomas More and Bishop Fisher at the subsequent festivities. At the wedding, the assassin misses his mark. Anne gives birth to a baby girl and the King soon has a new mistress.—garykmcd
- Popular talk about Henry's 'whore' gets one of duke Charles Brandon's men killed by Boleyn supporters, despite church asylum - their masters just manage to restrain themselves with blades. Learning the French king failed to intercede in Rome as promised, Henry chooses the obscure cleric Thomas Cranmer as new archbishop of Canterbury. Hoping to please Henry back into the Catholic fold, pope Paul III confirms Cranmer's appointment despite his Lutheran reputation as warned by cardinal Campeggio, but Thomas 'earns' his post by formally pronouncing Katherine of Aragon's marriage and daughter Mary illegal. Henry has already married Anne in secret, as reported secretly by Charles, who attended, to imperial ambassador Chapuys. Charles was rewarded with his appointment to High Constable and respectfully informs the old Queen that she may no longer enjoy any royal title or income. Thomas Cromwell is appointed as sir Thomas More's successor as Lord Chancellor. Anne's formal coronation is as grim as it is grand - no cheering crowds and a sniper goes unnoticed as only a humble retainer is fatally hit. The pope and his curia formally declare Henry's Boleyn marriage invalid, threatening with excommunication. Anne's pride over pregnancy proves misplaced as she only produces another daughter, Elisabeth. Henry still hopes his new queen will bear male heirs, but already takes another, younger intimate playmate, Lady Eleanor Luke.—KGF Vissers
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