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| 11 | <blockquote>In my many (too many) readings about Henry's checkered marital
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| 12 | career, one thing always struck me - the constant back and forth between
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| 13 | biographers/historians over the exact ending of his six marriages.
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| 14 | It's a common assumption that Henry divorced Katharine of Aragon, Anne
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| 15 | Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, and Catherine Howard, yet a close reading of the
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| 16 | actual circumstances of each case reveals something quite different - those
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| 17 | marriages were annulled, and annulments are not divorces.
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| 18 | <p>An annulment invalidates a marriage by declaring the marriage was never
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| 19 | valid; in other words, a marriage never took place. If we take this
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| 20 | a step further, it could be argued that Henry never had six wives at all
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| 21 | - since he annulled four of his marriagess!
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| 22 | <br>A divorce recognizes the legal validity of a marriage; it acknowledges
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| 23 | that a legal marriage did occur and was recognized by both spouses.
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| 25 | <p>I will add a discussion of each case when I have some spare time, which
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| 26 | I hope is sooner rather than later.
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