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KING HENRY 8

King henry was a well mannered child… For a while. His father, king henry 7 had recently ended the war of the roses and was happily married with his wife and children. Then, disaster struck! King henry 7 got Tuberculosis and passed away. After this event, his brother Edward took the throne. Shortly after he became a king, Edward fell into agonizing pain until, well, king Henry 8 got to take the throne.

After he became king, king Henry had an interesting life aside from success. He got really overweight for one thing some of his portraits show that. He also managed to have SIX WIVES in his lifetime. Two of them were executed, one of them died after giving birth,two got divorced with him (he created a religion to do that), and the last one got widowed because HE died. Another thing is that he went to war. He went to war SO many times. He quarreled with France and the Scots, mostly. He challenged them all throughout his life. His first battle was with France, where almost none of his troops survived. and he stopped fighting until he had better strategies. …show more content…
For example, he advanced the british navy by inventing the gunship and multiplying the English navy’s ships by 11, led the greatest attack on france since king Henry V, created a Protestant England and had children that would become England’s first queens, queen Mary and Elizabeth the first. Those are only some examples of his many accomplishments, but his life in terms of morals are
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