Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a member of the Agora Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Heather Tusko, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible

because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe,

and to getting in touch with our own humanity. This is episode 74. We're still doing this

whole War with France thing, which we will be finishing up shortly. Just this, and then

one more episode. This episode, I'm focusing on the relationships of Edward and Mary with France.

Neither of them reigned for very long, so even combined, it's going to be a shorter episode.

The next time it's going to be Elizabeth. And then we're done. Before I get started,

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So let's jump right into Edward the 6th.

We've been talking about this relationship that England had with France and how it was really quite complicated.

Your European foreign policy at this point was really complicated, but with France it was even more so thanks to the close relationships that the English and the French nobility had with each other.

Only 60 years before Henry the 7th became king, you had another Henry who was actually named heir to the French throne.

So it's a close relationship, it's a messy relationship, like many close relationships, it

can be pretty muddy sometimes.

We talked about how Henry the 8th was constantly either going to war with France or making

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