Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network and the original Tudor History podcast telling stories of

Tudor England since 2009.

I'm your host, Heather.

This is episode 246, I think.

And today we're going to talk about the ladies in waiting at Elizabeth I

court.

A lot of these women, maybe about half of them that we're going to

talk about who were ladies in waiting. We have done individual episodes on through the years,

but I realized I never put together like one whole episode just on what it was like to be a lady

in waiting, what kind of jobs you had, and then some of the

examples of ladies-in-waiting and who they were and the different scandals at court and

everything like that. So that is what we are going to talk about in this episode.

Quick reminder, as always, TudorCon is coming up. We are less than two months away,

you guys. It's coming. It's amazing. I'm so excited. Of course, all of our in-person tickets are sold out. So I'm sorry you can't come and party with us at Hcroft Hall in Richmond, but you can party with us online thanks to this streaming ticket. The internet makes magic happen, right? So we have the

streaming ticket, Englandcast.com slash TudorCon online to see the speakers, what you get. It's an

amazing deal. Honestly, you guys, I've always tried to make everything I do really accessible with

price, because I know there's online courses, there's stuff out there that are super expensive.

I look at it and I think like my whole kind of reason for being with this is to make history

accessible to more people. And so the streaming ticket costs $49. There's all the live talks.

There's extra taped talks that people are doing just for the streaming

folks. There's giveaways. You're going to get a digital swag bag with ebooks and digital artwork

and all kinds of fun stuff. You're going to get recordings of everything. So you can go back and

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