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...Henry VIII did not divorce Catherine of Aragon. The marriage was annulled...
...TIME, April 15, is the sentence "Concurrently, with the opening of Easter Law Sittings, began the greatest flood of British divorces since Henry VIII started a church of his own so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn...
...about time that such a reputable journal as TIME stopped reiterating that old gag about Henry VIII being the founder of the Anglican Church? . . . For example, in "Bureau oi Information" published in the Roman paper known as Our Sunday Visitor (issue of April 1940), the question "Who founded the Episcopal Church?" is answered in this way: "The Episcopal Church is a branch of the Anglican Church. . . . This Church was not actually founded by Henry VIII . . . but under Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth the present Church was formed." At last someone in Rome has discovered that Henry did not found...
...about 100 males were "engaged in this vile business. In Piccadilly 22 men were loitering. Many of them were painted and powdered and in a few cases were wearing high-heeled shoes.";Concurrently, with the opening of Easter Law Sittings, began the greatest flood of British divorces since Henry VIII started a church of his own so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn. The rush was accounted for by a combination of wartime psychology and two-year-old liberalization of Britain's divorce law (admitting desertion as grounds for divorce). On the docket last week...
...George VI) veiled herself like a model Mohammedan woman while in Arabia. (Back home she mildly startled England by becoming the first member of the royal family publicly to approve birth control.) London papers, which would never dare fake such a story, have asserted several times that Edward VIII when Prince of Wales proposed marriage to Athlone's homey daughter Lady May Cambridge, great favorite of Queen Mary, but she preferred to marry Captain Henry Abel Smith of the Royal Horse Guards...