Elizabeth I - The Women Who Shaped a Queen

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4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth I was profoundly shaped by the women around her, and this series will explore these pivotal relationships throughout her life.

Joint Chief Curator Tracy Borman opens our series with Dr Nicola Tallis, and together they explore the young Elizabeth, before she came to the throne. The formative relationships she experienced during this time shaped the queen she would become; her mother Anne Boleyn, her stepmother Katherine Parr, and her sister Mary I.

Read about Elizabeth's Summer with Katherine Parr at Hampton Court, and see the book Elizabeth embroidered as a gift for her stepmother.

This is the first episode in our Elizabeth series where we explore the women who shaped a queen.

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0:00.0	Hello listeners and welcome back to the Historic Royal Palaces podcast.
0:08.8	I'm Tracy Borman and I have the privilege of being joint chief curator here at the palaces.
0:16.0	While over the next three episodes, I'm going to be leading you on a journey to explore the woman herself, Elizabeth I.
0:24.9	The iconic Virgin Queen and the final monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
0:31.4	But I hope that we will venture a step further than that.
0:36.2	Because throughout her life, Elizabeth was surrounded by many different examples of female power,
0:42.4	as it existed in the Tudor age.
0:44.6	And I believe that it's in examining these relationships that we can reveal the most about the real Elizabeth.
0:52.9	These are the women who shaped a queen,
0:56.2	and this series will follow them throughout Elizabeth's life,
1:00.5	marking how they influenced her and what she learnt from them.
1:05.6	We hope to question what myths have endured about Elizabeth
1:09.1	so that we can understand the queen behind
1:12.4	the facade, the woman under the layers of history. For each episode, I'll be joined by an expert
1:20.3	guest and we'll be venturing into the very places where this history unfolded at Hampton Court
1:26.5	Palace. So join me as we discover the real Elizabeth I and the women who shaped a queen.
1:39.3	Welcome to this first episode in our Elizabeth series and what a way to begin because today I am delighted to say that I am joined by the truly fabulous Dr Nicola Talas, historian, author, broadcaster and author of her new book, Young Elizabeth.
2:00.0	So literally there could be nobody better to talk me through
2:03.9	those turbulent early years in the life of my favourite Queen. Nicola, welcome. So lovely to see you,
2:11.6	Tracy. Thank you very much for having me. Well, you are very welcome. I'm sorry about the weather.
2:16.6	It's a bit of a gloomy morning here at Hampton Court. And you can probably hear the echo listeners. We are here on the steps leading up to the Great Hall, which was the scene of Anne Berlin's triumph. And we'll be going on to Anne and her relationship with Elizabeth later.
2:37.0	But I would like to take you to a part of the palace that's very closely associated with Elizabeth's mother,
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