Did Henry the Eighth Save True Religion?

Anne beleyn's role in king henry's life opened up a way forward for the reforms that were sweeping europe at the time, and kick started what we now see as the church of england. When her daughter ascended to the throne, elizabeth the first, she was re branded as a faith leader and a martyr for the protestant faith. But history is written by the winners, as they say. The laws of the land during this time were not an apparatus justice, but a puppet of the state.

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