Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast.

I'm your host, Heather Tuscoe, 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 our connection to our own humanity. This is episode 81, another

joint episode with Melita Thomas of Tudor Times on Margaret Pohl. Just a quick note that the Renaissance

English History podcast is a proud member of the Agora Podcast Network, and you can discover lots of great new podcasts at

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for the mailing list for extra mini-casts and goodies like that at Englandcast.com. So now,

let me introduce you to Melita. Melita is a co-founder and editor of Tudor Times, a website devoted to Tudor and Stuart History in the period from 1485 to 1625.

You can find it at TudorTimes.co.uk.

Melita, who has always been fascinated by history, ever since she saw the 1970s series Elizabeth R with Glenda Jackson,

also contributes articles

to BBC History Extra and Britain magazine. Margaret Poole or the pronunciation is one of those

things that people have been arguing over for centuries. Her actual maiden name insofar as people

use them in those days was Margaret Plantagenet. She was the

daughter of the Duke of Clarence and so she was the niece of Edward IV and Richard III. And her mother,

Isabel Neville, was one of the great English heiresses, daughter of Warwick the Kingmaker. So Margaret

was right at the heart of the York family and like everybody who was born in the 1470s was tangentially affected by the Wars of the Roses.

When she was born, her uncle Edward had been king for, well, if you exclude the short flirtation with Lancaster in 1471, he'd been king for

about 12 years. But Edward and his brother, Clarence, didn't get on for various reasons, mainly to do

with Clarence being over-ambitious and coveting his brother's throne probably. So there'd been

some difficulty between the two brothers,

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