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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.

There's a moment at the end of every long rain,

when the calm on the surface hide something far more dangerous.

Queen Elizabeth first liked to present herself as unshakable.

The Virgin Queen, unflinching, eternal. But beneath that

polished image, simmered decades of unease, whispered conspiracies, and rivals circling a throne

she refused to discuss. Succession was the question Elizabeth never answered, and it became the

pressure point of her entire reign.

In her new book, Dr. Tracy Borman reveals that the shift from Tudor to Stuart so often remembered

as seamless was in reality fraught, secretive, and profoundly unstable. Centuries of tension

between England and Scotland still hung in the air. Mary Queen of

Scots cast a long shadow even after her execution, and in Scotland her son James had been

groomed to believe that the English crown was his destiny, while navigating plots, rebellions,

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