If you are talking about the Revolutionary War, then the British were already an established independent government.
King Henry the VIII accuses his wife of adultery, divorces her, and sends her to the headman's block to be beheaded.
He had 6 wives all in all. And he had prior relations to the succeeding wife before divorcing the preceding wife.
His wives were:
1) Catherine of Aragon - divorced
2) Anne Boleyn - beheaded
3) Jane Seymour - died
4) Ann of Cleves - divorced
5) Catherine Howard - beheaded
6) Kathering Parr - survived the King
