[wagglebee]

The only reason people continue to defend the Tudors is that they are themselves monarchists, or perhaps they're just anti-Catholic to the point of psychosis.

The irony of that is that Henry Tudor was a Catholic and Henry VIII was vocal proponent of papal authority until the pope refused to grant the annulment.

[FredZarguna]

That doesn't mean Henry VIII wasn't still a Catholic.

He regarded the English Church as a Catholic Church -- and not a Protestant one -- simply in schism, just as the Eastern Church had already been for 500 years. The Church of England, as distinct from the Church of Rome became a church which regarded Rome as apostate -- as Protestants did [and do] -- after agents of the Roman Church attempted to murder Elizabeth.

She herself saw no real difference between the various denominations of Christianity.