Welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a member of the Agora Podcast Network.

I'm your host Heather Tesco, 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 having a deeper connection to our own humanity.

This is episode 93. It's another joint episode with Melita Thomas from Tudor Times on Catherine Parr.

She is a much requested queen for us to cover. You know how I mentioned the

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and click on the donate and support area. So now let me introduce you to Melita Thomas.

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 tudor times.co.uk. She is also the author of a recently published book on Mary the first called the King's Pearl. So check that out too.

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. So she was your person of the month, she was your first person of the month, right?

He was, yes. Yeah, no, we, we had quite a lot of thought when we first decided to do it.

And we wanted to look at it as somebody who was well enough known for people to be interested,

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