The first Tudor King named Henry VIII. was married to Catherine of Aragon. After giving birth to children, the only child that survived was Mary, but it was impossible for a woman to succeed the throne. Unfortunately the male heir he wished for did not come. Meanwhile the king fell in love with Anne Boleyn and was looking for a way to be divorced from Catherine. Thus the pope was asked for help, but he …showed first 75 words of 485 total…

…showed last 75 words of 485 total…plotted to remove the queen, and Puritans, radical Protestants who wanted to abolish all traces of Catholicism. In 1571 Mary, Queen of Scots, favoured a group to assassinate Elizabeth, although Mary was beheaded in 1587, after being at the centre of Catholic plots of Elizabeth, such plots did not end until England defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588. Finally the significance of the religious settlement is that it was able to unite the vast majority of the people.