Henry VIII broke with the Catholic church and created the Church of England because he wanted to divorce his first wife and remarry a different woman while his first wife was still alive. However, when Elizabeth II was queen and head of the CoE, she couldn’t allow her sister to marry a man who was divorced because his first wife was still living, and somehow that went against church doctrine. How/why was this the case if that kind of situation was the whole reason the CoE was founded?
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He actually didn’t want to divorce his wife.
He wanted his marriage annulled on the grounds that it was never a ‘real’ marriage as she had been married to his brother before. Obviously, he knew that when he married her, but it wasn’t convenient to him then.
tl:dr – none of it ever had anything to do with religious doctrine, it was completely political.
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