King Henry VIII’s decided to depart from the Roman Catholic Church so that he could marry Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth’s mother (Clunie). This action allowed the King to marry Anne Boleyn after his previous marriage concluded in a divorce because his former wife, Catherine of Aragon gave birth to a daughter, Mary, rather than the desired male heir (Clunie). However, Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII’s marriage declared Elizabeth a potential heiress of the ruling of England (Hanson). Anne Boleyn failed to successfully deliver a son, so King Henry VIII acquiesced her execution in the year 1536; Elizabeth was merely three years old at the time (“Queen”). The woman that King Henry VIII remarried to immediately after Anne’s death, Jane Seymour, gave birth to
