As usual, I have a few start of podcast notices to dish out. First of all, those of you who follow my

Facebook page may have noticed that I cryptically mentioned that I'd recorded a guest episode for another podcast.

I can now reveal that it was for the wonderful Renaissance English History podcast. As you may have

noticed, we are charging into that era, indeed in the last show about Elizabeth Woodville, we briefly entered it.

As you all know, after Queen's, my next favourite topic is medieval mistresses, and so I decided to follow up on the episode on Alice Perez that I did for this show, and Jane Shaw that I did for the History of England, by covering one for the Renaissance English History podcast,

made by the wonderful Heather Tesco. I chose to talk about Bessie Blount, one of Henry

the Eve's most famous and important mistresses. While doing it, I caught controversy by calling

out a lot of past scholarship as being wrong, and who doesn't love that? I'll post a link on

the Facebook page when the episode is posted,

and also in the show notes for this one, though it may not appear when this episode first airs.

Second, I wanted to thank the latest donators to my show on Patreon, Michelle from San Francisco

in the US, and Connor from Wexford in Ireland. Their support is so welcome to the show,

as are the very generous reviews on iTunes that I have been receiving recently. If you would like

to shack a few quid my way to help support the show, you can go to patreon.com forward slash

Queens of England podcast, or if you've already done so, or money is tight, then maybe leave a review on iTunes.

Whatever you do, your continued support is massively appreciated. As usual, if you want to ask me

anything, notice any glaring errors that I make, or just want to get in touch to say how

wonderful I am, then there are a number of ways to do so. The email address is Queens of England Podcast at gmail.com.

There's the Facebook page, Queens of England Podcasts, where I post episodes

and any other podcast-related news.

There's my rather neglected, but still there, Twitter page at Queen's Podcast,

and my website, queensofinglandpodcast.com.

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