Once a candidate for Pope, he lived in Hampton Court Palace, but he fell from favour after failing to secure Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.

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The context (also explained elsewhere in the state papers) is that Charles wished the Princess Mary, Henry's daughter by his first wife Catherine of Aragon, to be restored to the order of succession, a request Charles believed to be reasonable given that Henry was still young enough to father a legitimate son.

ECONOMIST: Tudor history