During those days, divorce was illegal, so they had to make sure it was absolutely necessary that they be divorced, so they needed the pope to accomplish that. Religion was a very strong part of their lives too, which is why the pope. Annulment can be had because one of the two were not able to reproduce. Of course, blaming the woman.
How far was Gorbachev responsible for the collapse of soviet power in Eastern Europe. by 1985 the Soviet Union was in a crisis the economy was crumbling and it was involved in a costly war against Afghanistan.
So it dosent become a monarchy
