(12 July 1543 - 28 January 1547) (his death)
Henry married his last wife, the wealthy widow Catherine Parr, in 1543. She argued with Henry over religion; she was a reformer, but Henry remained a conservative. This behavior nearly proved her undoing, but she saved herself by a show of submissiveness. She helped reconcile Henry with his first two daughters, Priness Mary and Princess Elizabeth. In 1544, an Act of Parliament put the daughters back in the line of succession after Edward, Prince of Wales. The same act allowed Henry to determine further succession to the throne in his will.
Late in life, Henry became obese (with a waist measurement of 54 inches/137 cm) and had to be moved about with the help of mechanical inventions. He was covered with painful, pus-filled boils and possibly suffered from gout.
Henry's obesity hastened his death at the age of 55, which occurred on 28 January 1547 in the Palace of Whitehall, on what would have been his father's 90th birthday. Henry VIII was interred in St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, next to his wife Jane Seymour. Over a hundred years later, Charles I was buried in the same vault.
After his death, his only legitimate son, Edward, inherited the Crown, becoming King Edward VI.