Pope's gift to Charles and Camilla recalls three messy divorces over 500 years
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:48:44 -0700
Prince Charles will have to keep a stiff upper lip when he receives a present from the Pope next week. Benedict XVI will serve Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall a set of divorce papers - a leather-bound facsimile of the appeal sent by English peers to the Vatican asking for the annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon in 1530. The papers will bring to mind the Henry's dissolution of the monasteries, when he 'divorced' England from the Vatican and installed himself as the head
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