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TIL that Henry VIII technically had only two wives , Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves weren't divorced, but were instead annulled meaning in legal terms the marriages never existed. Henry did the same to Anne Boleyn before he executed her.

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