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forward slash queens of England podcast. To all my new listeners, welcome to the rest of you.

Welcome back.

Hello and welcome to the Queens of England podcast.

Episode 65, Mary of Modena, the always expecting Duchess.

Thank you. Mary of Moderner is the last queen that we will be covering on this podcast,

and, looking over her life, she is a rather fitting person on whom to end as she marks the

end of an era in many ways but also her life contains many of the same themes that we have seen throughout

this podcast the first last is the most important it is after all the reason why we're ending here. She was the last

queen consort of England. After her came only Queen Regnance up until the Act of Union in 1707,

that turned the monarchy of England into the monarchy of Great Britain. She was also the last

Catholic consort, married to the last Catholic monarch of either England or its

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