WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Rumor Has It: Henry VIII

Episode Date: November 17, 2023

In this episode, we hear all the tea about England’s infamous king.

Sh-Rumor Has It, rumor has it, rumor has it, rumor has it, rumor has it, rumor has it. Did you hear? I saw, she told me, rumor has it. You'll never believe. You're listening to Rumor Has It with Addy Longnecker. Hello, hello, and welcome to Rumor Has It, where we go through all the gossip of history. I'm your host, Addy Longnecker, and today we're going to be talking about the scandalous decision of Henry the Eighth to divorce his wife, Catherine, for Anne Boleyn, one of her ladies in waiting. This came as quite a shock to the nation when the defender of the faith, as he was termed by the Pope, Henry the 8th decided to divorce his then-wife, Catherine, because he claimed the marriage was never valid because she had been married first to his brother. Really, he wanted a divorce because

She had only given him a daughter and he wanted male heirs. Anne Boleyn, one of the ladies-in-waiting of Catherine, had caught the eye of Henry the 8th, and he decided it was time to switch wives. The reason this was such a scandalous decision and had the whole of Europe in such a stir was because in order to do so, in order to divorce his wife, he had to leave the Catholic Church and declare himself head of the Church of England, something that would cause quite the controversy, even among his own court. Henry would go on to have a total of six wives in his quest to get a male heir.

Divorced beheaded died. Divorced beheaded survived. Those were the sad fates of Henry's wives. This has been rumor has it on Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM. Until next time.