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Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit,

the podcasts in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs,

from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise,

relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.

Not in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.

Today, for fans of Amberlin, a visit to Hever Castle is a must.

It's almost a shrine.

It doesn't hurt that as castles go, Heva proves that small can be beautiful.

There's something ineffable about watching the mist rise over its top-preed garden on a winter's morning. or seeing the doves that perched in the golden wall rising above the moat,

or crossing that drawbridge into the gorgeous little courtyard with a timber-framed interior.

And after the changes made by William Wardolph Astor in the early 20th century,

to walk around Hever is almost to feel like one is going back in time.

But the reason that it has a special place in the hearts of Tudor aficionados

is because this is actually and truly where Ambelin, Henry VIII's second wife, grew up.

One can almost imagine her as a dark-haired child running across the lawns. It was here that she received the education that so impressed the

Archduxies of the Netherlands, and probably here that she started learning the French that would

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