Hello, friend, and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network, and the original Tudor History podcast turning 15 years old this year.

Craziness, the Kinseniera.

So this is episode 226 and we are, I did this very cleverly, you guys.

We're bridging the gap between Love Month and Women's History Month.

And we are talking about the love lives of three famous Tudor women who were well known for their love lives.

So we are going to be looking at the love lives of Margaret

Douglas, Mary Queen of Scots, and of course Elizabeth I, three women who were well known for

their romantic mishaps and their romantic relationships. And yeah, that's what we're doing

today. So in other news, really quick, TudorCon, we're down to like 17 tickets left as I

am recording this. So if you want to come to TudorCon, Agecroft Hall, September 20th to

22nd, three days of talks, learning, new friendships, all kinds of wonderful things. And it's at a new

venue, Agecroft Hall in Richmond, Virginia. I'm super excited. And there's just 17 tickets left. So if you want to come, now would be

the time to get your ticket. Also, thank you so much to the patrons and members who keep this

podcast going and do so much to support it. I am so very grateful to all of you. Patrons this

week are getting a bounty, a bounty of goodies. For everybody,

there's an author chat with Janet Wirtman, who's going to be speaking at TudorCon on Douglas Howard,

who had Robert Dudley's love child, speaking of love. And then patrons are also, patrons and members are also getting a

member's only minicast on Tudor Love token. So we'll be talking about miniatures and love letters and all

that kind of stuff. Patrons get extra minicasts and author chats, fun things like that. And then

patrons and members at a certain level will also be

getting about an hour and a half long audio course on Henry the 7 and how he consolidated

power after the Wars of the Roses. You can also buy that course if you don't want to become a

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