Fidei Defensor

Joanna Bogle on a monarch who "never intended to create a Church of England as it later came to be seen and understood," and "always thought of himself as a Catholic, never knew the Book of Common Prayer, would have been baffled by the Protestantism of later generations with teetotalism and Baptist chapels and the Salvation Army" — Henry VIII: petulant, lustful greedy - but never protestant.