This podcast is called Not Just The Tudors. But it also is The Tudors. And this week to mark

the 485th anniversary of Ambulin's death, which was on the 19th of May 1536, I've gone

to town, with a two-part podcast special reflecting on Anne's life and her afterlife.

During new research and reflections from some of those who have worked to chip away at the

myths that stick to Ambulin like barnacles to a rock, this podcast special blows away

the dust and breathes new life into a figure who's often more remembered for how she died

than how she lived.

And today we have a wonderful assortment of new research on Anne. We'll be talking to

Dr. Owen Emerson at Heaver Castle. Speaking to Dr. Lauren McKay about her work on Ambulin's

family, then there's Kate McCaffrey's brand new discoveries in Anne's book of hours,

which is very exciting news for anyone who works on this period.

This week I went on location to Ambulin's childhood home of Heaver Castle. Dr. Owen

Emerson is Castle supervisor and I caught up with him to think about what we can learn

about Anne from her own home.

I like to think of this as Anne's happy place, mainly because nice things happen to her

here, rather than other locations associated with her. We know that she probably moved to Heaver

around 1505, which is when Thomas Bellin took ownership of the castle from his father.

And although we don't have a huge amount of information about the early life of the

Bellin children here, we do have very good clues that they were located here, not least

the graves of Thomas and Henry Bellin Jr., who are buried at Heaver Church and at Penn's

Hearst. The early is, there was probably quite a lot of loss to the Bellin boys died.

But I can imagine this being a place where Anne was educated. She would have begun her

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