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Enter Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII by Anne Boleyn. She was so well-liked that she became known as Gloriana. She also got excommunicated by the pope, not that it mattered much to her, since she was Protestant. It mattered to Philip II, who considered himself rightful Catholic King of England (he had even taken up drinking warm beer), and who assembled the Spanish Armada to make it so. Unfortunately for him, a bit of a breeze and a bunch of little boats blew his ships about, and he lost.

The other three of Henry VIII's six wives, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr, had no children. Elizabeth was the last child of Henry VIII and therefore the last Tudor heir to the throne of England.

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