On Mon, 7 May 2007, David Harley wrote: > > This makes it even more interesting to me - and especially so > > now that my wife and I are hooked on that "Tutors" show on > > Showtime. In it, the queen is The Queen even though she was > > only a Spanish princess before marrying The King of England > > (good ol' Henry VIII). > > Henry VIII's queens were queens consort, not joint monarchs. They had the > title but not the power. > > > Also, this Henry was a Tudor and > > wasn't he the one that formed the Church of England? > > Correct and correct. Basically because the Church of Rome wouldn't endorse > his changing consorts in midstream, as I remember.
I think it was a whole lot more comlicated than that. Certainly that's what I was taught in History at school, but I think there must have been, at that time, a major groundswell of anti-catholic feeling in England. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
