Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon as his fathers dying wish, and through this was happily married to her for 18 years, until he started to worry increasingly about getting a male heir to his throne as he had only one child, a daughter, Mary. Henry then mad eup a story about Catherine of Aragon and that she in fact had consumated her marriage with Edward therefore making their marriage wrong in the eyes of god and therefore they must divorce. The pope didnt aggree. He refused to annul the marriage which led to the Reformation of England and the break from the Roman Catholic church.