Henry also faced serious opposition

• Catherine of Aragon


  If she agreed to Henry's demands, it would make her daughter Mary a bastard and mean that she had lived as Henry's mistress all this time
• Catherine of Aragon


  She refused a papally inspired compromise whereby she would go into a nunnery, thereby dissolving her marriage and allowing Henry to remarry
• Charles V


  He was Catherine's nephew and the most powerful man in Europe
• Charles V's troops captured Rome, making the Pope (Clement VII) effectively his prisoner


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