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1. Henry VIII (6 wives of Henry VIII)
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Not that I care or this is any serious list, but he was very much in love with his first wife Catherine of Aragon and only divorced her (and all that came with it) because of state reasons - she couldn't give him a male heir.
So I wouldn't put him first on a "you gave love a bad name" list  :P |
No he didn't. He introduced the Church of England so he could divorce her. She was apparently very ugly and he took one look at her when she got of the boat and hated her instantly. He loved Anne Boleyn but she cheated so he chopped off her head. The other one he loved was the third one Jane Seymour, but she died in childbirth. |
Sorry, I was half wrong.. I just remembered.. he divorced the 4th wife on the spot.. he did love CoA.. but fell in love with Anne Boleyn, so introduced divorce, gets so confusing all these wives...  |
The whole divorce thing was indeed to divorce CoA but not because he didn't love her or she was ugly (she wasn't in fact - she was very pretty and intelligent and had received education from the best teachers available at the time) but because she couldn't produce a male heir and was thus creating a state problem. She had many miscarriages and the only successful birth was that of Mary Tudor.
I've always found it very ironic that despite all of Henry's efforts his only male heir was so weak that the law had to be changed so that a woman could ascend to the throne. He could have stayed put with CoA after all!
Oh! And also - Anne Boleyn didn't cheat on him. She was in love with him. The supposed "lover" was her half brother or something, wasn't he? And the trial and process was all very blurry and confessions were forced out of tortured men who would have said anything and accused anyone in order to be released (not that I totally blame them!)
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she couldn't give him a male heir.
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Indeed not!