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[quote=Anonymous]He couldn’t divorce her because there was t really divorce at that time.  In his mind, his marriage to Catherine was annulled, or has never actually been a valid marriage, because the papal dispensation has been canceled invalid.  
He actually never got a divorce — he had two annulments.
  
Anne would have been very dangerous to leave alive.  Her father and brother were ambitious and had some connections.  She had a living child with a claim to the throne.  Having Catherine squirreled away was bad enough but she has been effectively isolated as mostl or her supporters were out of the country, and he had already executed a number of high profile Catholics (like bishop fisher) who might have supported cetherine.

Plus it is highly likely that he was starting to go crazy at that point with either syphillis or McLeod syndrome.  Combine that with a prevalent worldview that construed infertility and birth defects as God’s wrath and it’s not a big leap for him to conclude that Anne was a witch.  Particularly when you think about the fact that he was basically obsessed with her for 7 years in which she refused to sleep with him, and then as soon as they were married, they were fighting a lot.  (Everyone knows people like that, where the chase is much better than the reality.). For those who wanted to get rid of her, easy to convince a half crazy king that she had bewitched him.   He probably half believed it, or half believed something akin to it.
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