As the King of England, Henry VIII was used to getting his own way. So when he decided that he was going to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon, he did whatever it took.
Whatever it took was, in this case, to break with the Catholic Church when the Pope refused to annul the marriage, to banish his wife from the court, to found the new Church of England with himself as its head, and to compel the necessary permissions from the ecclesiastical and political authorities that owed him their fealty. Katherine was sent to the More Castle, in Hertfordshire, although she relocated several times before her death in 1536.
For the rest of her life, she insisted that she was Henry’s rightful wife and the rightful Queen of England. According to Henry, her title was Dowager Princess of Wales, and it was under that title she was buried.
