one other thing, is that Henry VIII NEEDED a son to succeed him and his wife wasn’t fertile and he had nothing but little corpses from her, except the daughter. Then of course Henry VIII was also wildly in love with Anne Boleyn, but his conscience was driving him crazy, espcailly sicne he thought that he had been literally engaging in incest with the wife of his dead brother.
The whole thing was one big miserable mess and it only escalated because Katehrine of Aragon kept refusing to agree to a divorce and also refused to let her daugher be bastardized by her own father. But if Katherine had even nominally taken the veil, she could have lived a normal enough life and Mary would still have remained legitimate.
“Henry VIII NEEDED a son to succeed him”
His daughters certainly were no slouches in causing mayhem, but yes, to preserve the Tudor name that is true.