On 8th June 1536, Henry VIII’s sixth Parliament met and passed the second Act of Succession.
This act removed both of the king’s daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, from the line of succession and declared them illegitimate.
Henry VIII was now left with no legitimate children.
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On the same day that the act was passed, Mary wrote to her father the king n an attempt to be reconciled with him and return to court. She thought that now her stepmother, Anne Boleyn, was dead, all would be well. She was wrong. Click here to read more.
