Why did the British royal houses favor the Lutheran royal houses so much?
I've been wondering about something. I know that you (to this day!) can't inherit the British crown, if you're a Roman-Catholic, or even if you're married to a Roman-Catholic. So far so good, even though I don't understand why those laws haven't been changed by now. But isn't the Church of England "a bridge church" between the Roman-Catholic church and the Protestant churches? So why did the the British royal house only make marriage alliances with the Lutheran royal houses in northern Germany, Denmark and Sweden, if the Church of England is just as close to the Catholic church as to the Lutheran churches? Why did they never think of the many Catholic royal houses all over Europe? All of these Lutheran future queens of England had to join the Church of England, so couldn't a Catholic princess had done the same thing? Or is the Church of England really that much closer to the Lutherdom than to Roman-Catholicism? (I know it's considered as one of the Protestant churches, but like I said earlier, it's also called "a bridge church".) Do you have any thoughts about this?