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E3: January & the Tudor Dynasty

All Things Tudor - The Podcast

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All Things Tudor

I read this week somewhere that Anne introduced Henry to the divine right of kings. Is that correct? It's not quite correct, but I know what the person was suggesting by it. What Anne did was introduce Henry to a book by William Tyndale called the Obedience of a Christian Man. And in it was the idea that it was shameful for kings to be under the authority of popes and that it inverted the divine order.

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