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Tudors Dynasty

Bess Throckmorton: Duty, Love, and Scandal

Tudors Dynasty

RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson

History

4.4794 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we explore Tony Riches' Bess – Tudor Gentlewoman, uncovering the life of Bess Throckmorton, a woman who captured Sir Walter Raleigh's heart and played a subtle yet powerful role in the Tudor court. Riches’ book reveals the secrets, ambition, and quiet strength of this fascinating figure in Elizabethan history.

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Host: Rebecca Larson

Guest: Tony Riches

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Tudors Dynasty podcast.

0:03.7

Hello and welcome back to the show. I'm your host, Rebecca Larson, and today I am so happy to

0:09.2

welcome back to the show. Once again, Tony Riches. Welcome back, Tony. Well, thank you for inviting

0:14.5

me again. It's great. It's becoming a regular thing, this. Well, you write a lot of books, so I am happy to welcome you back every time.

0:24.2

One a year. I write one a year.

0:26.5

So it's a bit scary. It shows how the years are passing, doesn't it?

0:30.2

Oh, well, let's not be reminded. They move too quickly already.

0:36.5

I seem to recall one time when I was working on my fiction book, I think it was,

0:41.5

that you told me that the best way to do it was to write one page per day,

0:49.1

and then you end up with 365 pages, right?

0:52.5

That's absolutely right.

0:53.8

And it doesn't matter if you're not in the mood, even, because with 365 pages, right? That's absolutely right.

0:57.4

It doesn't matter if you're not in the mood, even,

1:00.1

because as long as you write something,

1:01.9

you can always edit something,

1:05.1

but you can't edit a blank page is what they say, isn't it?

1:08.0

So if you're not happy with it,

1:10.5

it's a lot easier to improve something once you've got it down on the page, you know?

1:13.5

That's so true. It really is. Well, it's amazing how many books that you have written over your career.

1:19.5

I think I can call you a prolific writer.

1:23.5

Thank you.

1:25.4

Well, I've done the whole of the Tudor dynasty now.

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