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Despite the alleged uncertainty about the outcome of this investigation, the Spanish ambassador reported that "Both the King and his lady, I am assured, look upon their future marriage as certain, as if that of the Queen had actually been dissolved."
As talks with the Vatican stonewalled, the king took a more expedient option : a break with Rome. Instead, he would become the head of the church in England, able to decide his own affairs.
On May 23, 1533, Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, granted the king's divorce.
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For love-besotted Henry, it did not come a moment too soon. He had already been married to his second wife for roughly seven months.
In Henry's mind, this was not bigamy. If his marriage to Catherine of Aragon had never been valid, hen he did not have a wife and was free to take one. The wedding is thought to have taken place in November 1532, in secret, at Dover. The queen's reaction to the news is not known, but she would refuse to surrender her jewels to Anne, upon the latter's demand, telling Henry that his new wife "is the scandal of Christendom and a disgrace to you."
The coronation of Anne Boleyn would take place shortly following the 1533 divorce ruling. She was already six months pregnant.
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