>>17871266>a Protestant kingHenry VIII was a Catholic until the second of his death, and never made any pretence of *personally* being a Protestant. Cromwell, Cranmer and Anne Boleyn were the architects of the Reformation in practice, and the harder Protestant edge they gave it was much to the king's distaste. Henry just wanted to preside over something totally theologically Roman Catholic but with himself as leader rather than the Pope.