1. Hamlet
The Tudor Family

2. House of Tudor
Henry VII defeated Richard the III ending the war of Roses which was waged for 100 years.
Henry had Arthur and Arthur was Prince of Wales. Father (Henry VII) engaged Arthur to Catherine of Aragon - daughter of Ferdinand and Isabelle of Spain.
Spanish Armada

3. Catherine of Aragon

4. King Arthur

5. Henry VII decided to marry Henry VIII to Catherine.
Leviticus 20:21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

6. Henry at 17
King 1509

7. Henry Vii asks the Pope for dispensation for marriage on grounds that Arthur never consummated the marriage.
With Henry Viii the first seven children died in childbirth. Eventually they had Mary “Bloody Mary” Catholic
Henry 8 decides he wants to marry Catherine’s lady in waiting - Anne Bolen.

8. Princess Mary

9. Henry the VIII says that Arthur and Catherine must have had sex and the curse of Leviticus is on him and he wants the Pope to undo the dispensation. The Pope would have agreed, except Prince Philip of Spain surrounded the Vatican and said he would declare war – so the Pope won’t let him divorce.

10. 1534 Act of Supremacy – Break from the church

11. Anne Boleyn

12. Anne Boleyn
Anne of 1000 Days
Boy dies
Elizabeth 1533

13. Jane Seymor 1536 Anne’s lady in waiting.
Hampton court to await beheading

14. Anne of Cleves 1540
Jane has Edward, hemorrhages, and dies on the way to the Baptism.
Henry marries Anne of Cleves.
Pretty picture, not pretty in person.

15. Anne of Cleves - divorced

16. Catherine Howard -adulteress beheaded 1540

17. Katherine Parr until death do us part . . .
1543

18. King Henry Dies 1547
Syphilis
Leaves 12 year Edward King

19. King Edward

20. Lady Jane Grey

21. Mary Bloody Mary 1553

22. Young Elizabeth

23. Elizabeth’s coronation 1558

24. Queen Elizabeth – Virgin Queen

25. Queen Elizabeth