It will not have escaped your notice that this episode is a little late. Well, dear listeners, I've been sick.

Nothing life-threatening and I'm fine now, but it was definitely enough to prevent me from writing or

researching for about two weeks. This is meant that I've had to push back not only this episode,

but belong to the other half. I'll be talking more about that at the end of the show,

but suffice it to say that it won't be launching today, which is what I had announced in the

intro episode that I released at Christmas. What has kept me going throughout this period of

feeling like death is the number of you who have still been signing up as patrons. It is

amazing to me to see how many people are still starting to support me,

even as the podcast they know is ending, and the one they don't know is about to begin.

So, with that in mind, I'd like to offer my heartfelt thanks to the three Ks, Kate, Kathy,

and Kender, as well as Jane, Courtney, Lowe, My, Christine, Edward and Janice. You're all amazing

and I'm so happy to have you on board. If you're new to the show, well, I would recommend that

you start somewhere else, but if you insist, then you are very welcome. But to the rest of you,

for the final time, welcome back.

Hello, and welcome to the Queens of England podcast.

Episode 68, season's two and three wrap-up for Tudor and Stuart Queens.

Music Season 1, the Queen's of England podcast, the bit that covered the Middle Ages,

covered a period around 500 years and took about a year and a half to complete. And that was with

fortnightly episodes. Producing seasons two and three, the Tudor and Stewart seasons, has taken

just over it one year and covered less than half the time. And that is with most of it occurring

with weekly episodes. There are a couple of reasons why these two centuries, the 16th and 17th,

have taken so long to cover. The first is the incredible amount that has been written over the last

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