[Kenny Bunk]

Kabumpo, turn in your Canon Lawyer Certificate immediately. In accepting the Pope's offer of the highly paid position at ye olde nunnery, Catherine would not have had her marriage annulled, it would be set aside via a subspecies of the "Pauline Privilege," granted to innumerable noblewomen put aside by their medieval husbands for various reasons. As in all things Vaticanal, there's left, right, black, white, grey, and chartreuse. Direct further queries to a Jesuit.

Now true, Mary may well have lost her place in line for the top gig, however, I am sure they would have worked out a sweet deal for her, too. H8 like her pretty well at the start of the mess. Queen Catherine? Not well advised in the negotiating department.

[kabumpo]

I’ve done a lot of reading on this topic and I cannot agree with you. The way things were at that time, the voiding of the marriage made Mary a bastard instead of the heiress to the throne.

[Erasmus]

Kabumpo, turn in your Canon Lawyer Certificate immediately.

After all, there are plenty to choose from in Tokyo.