Welcome to the Tudors Dynasty podcast. I'm your host, Rebecca Larson, owner of tutorsdynasty.com,

and this podcast will be my last in the series of Queen Elizabeth of England. It's been a couple

weeks since my last episode. And as many of you already know,

my dad has been hospitalized for a while and has had two surgeries since the last installment.

Two weeks ago, I spent a few days back home by his side at the hospital. I'm very thankful to have

been able to do so. This week, I came down with the flu or what I believe is influenza.

It really knocked me out for the whole week, and this is the first time that I felt well enough to record.

My lung capacity is not yet at 100%, so please bear with me.

I also didn't have the normal amount of time to research this episode because of everything that's been going on.

So I apologize for this truncated version of the story.

With all that being said, let's just get on with the show.

You have waited long enough.

Sit back, relax, turn up the volume, and prepare to be transported back in time to the

tutor period, Elizabethan style.

They were both female, both royal by birth, and both queens in their own right. But being cousins is what caused the most havoc in their lives, the lives of these two

women. I am of course speaking of Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stewart. It wasn't only the fact that the cousins

practiced different religions, but that one was declared illegitimate in 1536 after the execution

of her mother, Anne Boleyn. Had Henry the 8th legitimized both Mary and Elizabeth Tudor when

he added them to the line of succession, things may have turned out very differently for

Mary Stewart. Well, maybe. In this podcast, I do not go into full detail on the cousins, but

try to understand the relationship a bit better and show the differences in the two women.

When I asked all of you on Facebook, do you believe that Elizabeth truly saw Mary as a threat to her throne?

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