Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England, episode 271, most faithful subject.

Before we start those some news, if you haven't already missed it, there will be a conference

on the 29th of June in New York City at which I will be speaking. Amazingly, Mike Duncan

is speaking too, you know, History of Rome.

And as Kevin Straub, Roy Field Brown, loads of glittering styles from Agora to Great

Line Up. It's called Intelligent Speech, which I fear may be postmodern irony, but if

you happen to be near New York on the 29th of June, you can hear us all talk, then go

on your way or you can stay for supper, share supper and have a tipple, which would be a

hoot.

To find out more, go to the History of England website where there's a link or just go

straight to IntelligentSpeechConference.com. I really hope you'll be able to make it.

Now on with the show, last time we heard about the collapse of the conspiracy by Wyatt and

his chumps. Inside the council and the royal apartments, if they could have been bunting,

there would have been bunting. And any opportunity for a good bunter is after all to be welcomed,

but I don't think they had the word at the time, so they must have found some other

way to feel happy.

It is traditional, of course, when you feel happy and gay to feel a rush of goodwill towards

all, or at least I have found this to be so, but not for everyone and not specifically

for two folks close to Mary at this time, indeed, closest to her. The Chancellor, Wiley

Winchester and the Spanish Ambassador Simon Arraná. Because both men saw here a further danger

and a further opportunity. And that danger and opportunity had a name and that name was

Elizabeth. Whatever the rights and wrongs, it is quite clear that Elizabeth, willingly

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