Hello and 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 our connection to our own humanity.

This is episode 95. It's another joint episode with Tudor Times on Robert Dudley, Earl of Lester,

and of course, he's the possible soulmate to Queen Elizabeth. First, before we

get into that, a bit of admin. So I still have some copies of the Tudor planner left. That's the

gorgeous monthly and weekly diary filled with tutor history, listening lists wrapped up in a gorgeous

cover. People are calling it exquisite, which makes me so proud. Depending on when you listen to this, you likely won't get it

in time for Christmas, but it could make a lovely 12th night present, or you can simply get it as the

gift that you would have liked for Santa to have brought to. And I'm now discounting them by $10,

since they won't arrive in time for Christmas. If you enter the code gift for me, all one word, gift for me at checkout, you'll save $10 since they won't arrive in time for Christmas. If you enter the code, gift for me,

all one word, gift for me at checkout, you'll save $10. And by mid-January, they're all going to be

gone until next year. So make sure you get yours soon. Next, I want to thank the lovely patrons

of this show who help to keep it independent. Thank you to

Kathy, Cynthia, Yergan, Olivia, Al, Ashley, Kendra, Ann Ballin, I love that. Thank you, Jessica,

Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth, another Cynthia, and Judith, also Salain. And if I butcher that, I'm so sorry,

you'll have to email me and tell me the right way. And thank you. Laura, Candace, Kaylee, Ian, Barbara, Shar, Kiva, Amy, Allison, Joanne, Kathy, Christine, Annetta, Andrea, Catherine, Candace, Rebecca from Tudor's Dynasty, and Shandor. You're all awesome. As I'm reading your names right now, if you could see me, I'm actually reaching out my arms giving you all a big hug, because I'm so grateful to you. So thank you so much. I really am. Literally, I'm reaching out my arms giving you a hug.

So thank you. To learn more about how you can become with someone on my super awesome list and get a hug from me every time I do a podcast, and you can go to patreon.com slash Englandcast. Again, patreon.com

slash Englandcast. Or if you go to Englandcast.com, there's a donate and support area to,

whichever is easiest. So now let me introduce you to Melita. Melita Thomas is the co-founder

and editor of Tudor Times, a website devoted to Tudor and Stuart History from the period of 1485 to 1625.

You can find it at TudorTimes.co.uk.

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