How can I be best rid of my own troublesome wife whom I am tired of, and marry Anne?" [Chapter XXVII - England Under Henry the Eighth, Called Bluff King Hal and Burly King Harry
A Child's History of England]** the quote is not a contemporary recorded statement by Henry VIII. While it encapsulates the sentiment of his desire to leave Catherine of Aragon, it is considered a dramatic paraphrase or a made-up quote often used in historical fiction, popular biographies, or modern dramatizations.

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