So Truss was just a pacifier...
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Eh, that "faith" was really a "king's rights vs pope's rights" battle that was a long time in the making; it just happened to be that the straw that broke the camel's back on this was Henry VIII needing a male heir and a wife who wasn't post-menopausal to help him with that.
Of course.
If his Spanish Catholic wife had given him a male heir, Britain might have remained majority Catholic. As it was, everything worked out to put Queen Elizabeth I on the throne, and she is considered to have been one of England's greatest monarchs. She also put an end to Bloody Mary's persecutions of Protestants. The Catholic vs Protestant divide is a significant struggle, and a decision was made to side with the Reformation rather than the Pope, for which I am grateful. The coronation of the monarch is meant to be a Christian style ceremony, not a Hindu or Buddhist or Islamic ritual. Charles is reported to be planning to reduce the ceremony from 3 hours to 1, so let's hope he isn't planning to reduce the basic Christian elements. The history of Europe is influenced by Christian culture, and it is better imo if it remains that way, at least in form.