England’s King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves on this day in 1540. Prior to Henry’s reign heterosexual promiscuity was consummated with one wife and several mistresses. Henry’s break from the Catholic Church was the beginning of the current heterosexual practice of multiple sexual partners, each under the umbrella of “Holy Matrimony.”
The practice of courtship then became cyclical instead of singular. And so it remains to this day.
Here Patty Duke performs the song “Henry the Eighth” popularized by Herman’s Hermits in 1965.
Henry and Anne’s marriage was annulled on July ninth that same year. Heterosexual family values being what they are.
