It wasn't, Henry's son Edward became king, and he was raised a protestant Anglican.
King Edward VI was a Protestant :D
Henry VIII was his famous son
Henry VII was a Roman Catholic. He had a son, Henry VIII, the one with 6 wives.
England was mainly catholic with the Pope in Rome head of the church. When Henry III fell out with the Pope over divorces, Henry broke off from Rome, and Protestantism became the official religion in England, with Henry III as head of the new church. This led to the Dissolution of the Monasteries and other catholic religious buildings. Many can still be seen as ruins in Britain today.
It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. . If you are referring to Edward VI of England, Henry VIII's son, he was the first English monarch to take the throne, who had been raised as a protestant. As he was only nine when he took the throne, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, forced through a new protestantizing of the English Church. Under Henry VIII's reign, he had removed the Church from the Pope, but it had remained with Catholic ceremony and belief. Under Edward VI all of that was removed and it became a recognizable protestant religion.
Henry VIII
Henry VIII thought that it was wrong of the Church to not allow him to divorce Catherine of Aragon. Forever, he wanted a son to take heir to the throne. But all Catherine had given him was a daughter.
Yes, they were father and son.
He was Henry VIII's first illegitimate son and the only one that Henry acknowledged.
Henry VIII wanted to have a son.
There were two Henry Tudors. The first, Henry VII, began his reign in 1485 after the defeat of King Richard III at Bosworth Field. Henry vll son, Henry VIII, began his reign in 1509 upon the death of his father. When his father had DIED Henry's son took Henry's place