Henry was a complicated character, and believed, and was encouraged to believe that anything he wanted he could get, and gave his life over to what he wanted in everything. He wasn't loyal to much, and always liked to get his way, and always did which wasn't that healthy. His mindset is to be found in other rulers of this era, so that's common. But he pushed things to extremes, and no one ever forced him to be loyal to anything, and to him, if it was new it was better. If he broke any taboo, he coudn't stop. He was a showman, even though he left a mixed legacy to England in the end. Great in some ways, in the change he spearheaded, he was very bad in others. It is true that people like showman, and are indeed seduced by razzle-dazzle, because it makes life a bit more interesting. All his life Henry did thinfs in a larger than life way.
As for religion, he seems to have been a relatively conservative Catholic king as long as it served his interests. Once it didn't, his loyalty to the pope was out the door. He defintely continiued to worship in predominantly Catholic manner, however. He was very interested in religious law, and things of this sort, and he had a questioning nature, but perhaps not much of a personal concept of religion. All too often, what he did politically was in the guise of religion, and one could argue that he cared more about getting his way. Anne was a factor in the change, but perhaps Henry woudn't have been content anyway, given his nature. She was there at the right moment, and everything just came together from there. He did want a male heir, and whether a French Princess or Anne Boleyn gave him it, he might not have cared, but she was there, he was in love with her, and she refused to be his mistress, so there you go.
