Hello, friend, and welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network, and the original Tudor podcast, telling stories of Tudor England since 2009. I am your host

Heather Tesco and I am a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe it's a pathway to

understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and being more deeply in touch with our

own humanity. So my friends, this is episode I've lost track.

I realize that when I do the cover art and I put the episode number in, it never

matches up with what episode it actually is because somehow along the line I've gotten

myself mixed up in Canva, where I make the episode art. And when I'm uploading it, I realize it's

like different. And so there's a mismatch. So I don't know. We're like 239, 240 somewhere in there.

And we are talking today about William Cecil. I know some people pronounce it Cecil.

And a couple of, I don't know, maybe 10 years ago, somebody emailed me.

They were actually English and they corrected me on my pronunciation and they said, we say

Cecil here. And I said, well, I don't know because I've heard a lot of people say Cecil as

well. So let's do Cecil, Cessle, potato, potato. I'm going to say Cessel.

If you say Cicel, that's fine too. And now I'm saying it so much. It sounds really weird. Do you ever do that? Where you say a word so many times, it starts to sound really, really weird in your head. I've just done that. So if it sounds weird to you, I apologize. But here we are. The big announcement for this week is that TudorCon online tickets are now available.

You can go to Englandcast.com slash TudorCon online to learn all about the online ticket and purchase it.

Honestly, you guys, I think it's like one of the best values out there.

It's $49 for the weekend. You get to

experience TudorCon from the comfort of your own home. TudorCon, of course, is sold out for the

in-person tickets. Everything will be streamed. And it's not just like another Zoom meeting. We actually

have a host. Like I said, I think last week, it's my husband who's hosting it.

So he'll be relaying all your questions to the speakers.

If there's questions from the streaming folks, he'll be getting those.

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