The Almost-Marriage That Could Have Erased Lady Jane Grey
In 1513, Charles Brandon knelt in front of Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands, and lifted the ring right off her finger. Twice. The gossip reached all the way to her father, the Holy Roman...
10 Aug 18min
Tracy Borman Makes Me Rethink EVERYTHING About the Boleyns
This conversation totally rearranged some things in my brain. I sat down with Tracy Borman, Chief Historian at Historic Royal Palaces, to talk about her new novel The House of Boleyn, and it flips the...
6 Aug 29min
The Mistress Who Almost Made Henry VIII's Bastard Son His Heir
Okay so today's episode is a blast from the past, but stick with me because it's a good one. Back in 2016 I had James Bolton from the Queens of England Podcast on to talk about Bessie Blount, and it c...
4 Aug 43min
The Secret That Changes Everything We Thought About "Bloody Mary"
I'm in the UK this week, so I dug into the archive and found this gem from way back when approximately six people were watching my channel. It's an interview with Melita Thomas of Tudor Times about he...
28 Jul 44min
How Do We Actually Know What Anne Boleyn Looked Like? Art Historian Roland Hui Breaks It Down (Tudor Summit Throwback)
This is a throwback from the very first Tudor Summit back in 2017, the little online conference that eventually grew into TudorCon. I'm digging through the archives while I'm traveling in the UK, and ...
27 Jul 30min
How the Tudors Decided Who Deserved to Eat
In 1547, Parliament passed a law saying that if you refused to work, even for nothing but food, you could be branded and handed over as a slave for two years. Your children could be taken. They repe...
22 Jul 28min
What If Elizabeth I Had Married Robert Dudley? (The Decision That Nearly Broke Her)
A woman is found at the bottom of a staircase in 1560. And the one person who benefits most from it is the Queen of England. This week I'm digging into one of the wildest what-ifs in Tudor history. A...
21 Jul 26min
The Priest Hunter's Nightmare: Nicholas Owen and the Hiding Places No One Could Find
There is a Catholic saint whose actual job, canonized and everything, is patron of magic tricks. Escapologists. Illusionists. And he earned it the hard way: by spending nearly twenty years building hi...
20 Jul 22min
