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From his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, he wanted a divorce because she wouldn't produce a male heir (Biologically speaking, that was probably his fault, but hindsight is 20/20 vision).

From his fourth wife, Anne of Cleaves, he wanted a divorce for two main reasons. The first was that Anne was unattractive to him, and he had found another love interest in Kathryn Howard (who would become his fifth wife after the marriage between Anne of Cleaves and King Henry was annulled). There was also political tension between the Duke of Cleaves and the English government which was the "straw that broke the camel's back" and pushed King Henry to seek an annulment.

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he made a new chrch called the king of England ,which still stands today

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