Was King Henry VIII's Wedding to Catherine of Aragon Controversial at the Time?
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How did Catherine of Aragon feel when she married the dashing and handsome King Henry V III? She was probably deliriously happy. Catherine and dashing, handsome Henry were very much in love, and she’d waited seven long years to marry him. Now, she would be Queen of England, the role that she’d been trained for all of her life, Michael Sittow, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Surprisingly, not everyone cared for this marriage. The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Warham, actually warned Henry that: “It is not only inconsistent with propriety, but the will of God is against it. It is declared in historical law that if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing. It is not lawful.” This was because of the Bible verses in Leviticus forbidding a brother marrying his dead brother’s wife, and stating that if they married, they would be ‘childless’. The young and beautiful Spanish princess was brought to England to marry Prince Arthur, King Henry’s ...