;s birth. Anne’s enemies in the court began to plot against her, using the fact that the King still did not have a male heir to the thrown and the fact that the King had turned his attentions to Jane Seymour, one of Anne’s ladies in waiting. Anne and her brother, George, as well as many other people were brought up on charges of treason and adultery (on Anne’s part). They were sentenced to death. Shortly after Anne’s death the marriage was dissolved and declared invalid. The curious question here was how could Anne of committed adultery if she had never been married to the King?Within 24 hours of Anne’s death Jane Seymour and Henry VIII was betrothed. In 1537 King Henry VIII finally got his long sought over son, Price Edward. Jane Seymour died just two weeks after Edwards’s birth. Jane, in the end, would be the only of Henry’s six wives that was buried with him.The split from Rome had made England vulnerable and Thomas Cromwell had suggested his next wife to be of a political match, much like the first. Anne of Clebes was the chosen match. The marriage took place on January 6, 1540, and by then Henry was already looking for ways to get out of the marriage. The King did not find his new bride attractive and had found an attraction to a young Kathryn Howard. Anne gave the King no problems with his annulment proceedings.Sixteen days after Henry was free of Anne, Henry took his fifth wife, Kathryn Howard. Less than a year into the marriage the rumors of Kathryn’s infidelity began, and after getting enough evidence against the Queen. She was executed February 13, 1542. Eighteen months later the King married Katherine Parr. Katherine was probably more of a nurse than a wife to King Edward VIII, because of his failing health. However she was a very strong mother figure to King Edward’s children and encouraged strong education.King Edward VIHenry VIII died in 1547, secure ...
