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Shattered Souls

Bonus: Seth Margolis Interview

Shattered Souls

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Following up on our episode about Queen Elizabeth I, we’re releasing the rest of our conversation with Seth Margolis, author of The Semper Sonnet, who knows a lot more about Elizabeth and Elizabethan England than we do. Did Elizabeth secretly have a child? Or was she actually a guy? Seth gives us his take on these and other questions.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody and welcome to the podcast again. Today is a bit of a different show. It's

0:26.8

a bonus episode. If you listen to our episode that came out on Thursday, you'll know that we had

0:33.0

done an interview with Seth Margolis about Elizabeth I and it was a great interview and we had a

0:39.3

lot of content but we didn't use but a little bit in the episode and we wanted to share that with you.

0:46.8

So what we're going to do here is we're going to go ahead and actually share with you the interview.

0:52.9

It was Joe and myself for that interview. Devon wasn't unfortunately able to make it but it's

0:58.4

great interview. It's a lot of history and a lot of good information and I think you're going to

1:02.8

like a lot. So let's roll that interview.

1:10.6

And you've got a lot more research on this really than we have and so I guess I'd like to know,

1:15.0

do you really think Elizabeth had a child? You know I don't know. I would suspect not. I tend to be

1:21.2

a discounter of conspiracy theories. And so it was a really intriguing idea for a novel and there are

1:32.0

bits and pieces of her life and the circumstances around it that might lead you to think she had a

1:40.0

child but I tend to think she didn't. But I think it's sort of like if you think about the

1:47.4

Kennedy assassination. Again, I'm not a conspiracy theorist in general. So I think Lee

1:52.8

Harriard's Oswald acted alone. But a lot of people just feel that it's just unthinkable that this

1:59.5

great man who was so beloved at the time and maybe even more so in retrospect could be brought

2:04.7

down by one lunatec with good aim. You want it to be a conspiracy because it seems unfitting that

2:12.9

such a great person could be eliminated by such a nobody. With Elizabeth, there's a similar

2:17.9

frustration that arguably the greatest, certainly the greatest monarch in English history and maybe

2:25.3

one of the great leaders in world history just ended her line ended with her death and the tutors

2:33.0

were no more hurt, she means were no more, how could that be? It just it doesn't seem fitting somehow.

2:40.0

So people constantly want her to have left something behind. And in a way that's the, I think that's

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