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AI IMAGE - Portrait of King Henry VIII, 1540s, (2023). Henry (1491-1547) succeeded his father Henry VII as King of England in 1509. Obsessed with passing the throne on to a male heir, he had six wives in the course of his reign, none of whom provided him with a son who survived. In divorcing his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, in 1533, Henry severed the English church from Rome.