“Research assistants Muhammad Qaiser Ikram and Fazle Hakim Saijad”
I’m sure these thoroughly British Mohammedans were looking for some way to make Henry look good. Sheesh! They couldn’t have found a Scottsman or two to do this?
Didn’t he play on the Rams in the 1950’s???
Not long after his accident in 1536, his queen Anne Boleyn went into shock & miscarried. Their marriage was already on the rocks, but following the death of the unborn child, a boy, Henry turned totally against her. This pretty much sealed Anne’s fate; in May her enemies successfully made up charges of adultery against her & send her to the executioner block - freeing up Henry to marry Jane Seymour.
tennis elbow
Apply Occam's Razor. The future of a Tudor dynasty was precarious given the background of the Wars of the Roses, the attenuated claim of Henry VII and therefore VIII on the throne, and the lack of a male heir. He decided he needed to put Catherine aside so the hot young Miss Boleyn could provide him an heir. Henry would have been perfectly content to remain in the Catholic Church to do this, but the influence of Catherine's Spanish relatives on the Pope left him no choice but to leave the Church to get what he wanted. Looting the monasteries was a bonus, to be sure. It isn't complicated.
I suppose 21st Century people with nothing better to do could psychoanalyze his subsequent marital history, but once the English Reformation began the game was already afoot.
There was a great exhibit at the Tower of London years ago on exactly that. Such a sad transformation in both body and mind. Landing on your back wearing a full suit of armor is probably a lot worse than the hit a NFL linebacker puts on the average QB or receiver.