In the early 1520s Henry began to get very worried about the succession to the throne and with his only heir a little girl he had cause to be. Dissatisfied as Henry may have been with his marriage, it is most improbable that he would have embarked on the problems of a divorce at all if he had not had a successor to Catherine in mind...
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The main problem with Henry wanting to divorce Catherine was that Henry VIII was a Roman Catholic and the Roman Catholic faith believed in marriage for life. It did not recognise, let alone support, divorce. Henry was a man with great knowledge of the bible and knew every verse and passage by memory and he used this knowledge of the bible to escape his marriage to Catherine...
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