Hi friend. Welcome back 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 am Heather

and I am thrilled to be here and I'm thrilled that you are listening to me. Today we are going to

talk about William of Orange. We're going to talk about his assassination. It doesn't seem like

something that would affect Tudor England directly, but none of these events happen in a vacuum.

They of of course,

all everything affects everything else, right? Like the, what is it, the butterfly wings and stuff.

A butterfly beats its wings in, I don't know, Japan. And then there's a breeze in Hawaii, thanks to

that. So everything is interconnected and linked to everything else. So we're going to talk about

the assassination of William of Orange and how Tudor Elizabeth in England reacted to that, what it meant for Elizabeth,

what it meant for the Protestants in Elizabeth, and also for the war with Spain. So before we get

into that, though, just a note that TudorCon tickets are on sale now. TudorCon 2025 is going to happen at October 3rd through 5th at

Agecroft Hall outside of Richmond, Virginia. If you are new to this podcast and you're new to

TudorCon, it's a three-day Tudor Fest. And it starts Friday night. We have a welcome party.

There's talk Saturday and Sunday. Saturday night we're going to have a lute and guitar concert, which I'm very excited about.

So tickets are on sale now with the early bird price, Englandcast.com slash TudorCon to get all of the deeds on that, October 3rd through 5th, Richmond, Virginia, H. Croft Hall.

It's an actual 15th century home that came

from Lancashire that was transported to Richmond piece by piece, brick by brick, which is very,

very cool. It's a museum. They've got amazing gardens. It's a beautiful, beautiful location.

Tickets are limited. We have a very

small meeting room, although we will have more space. We're doing something new this year where we have

like the party ticket and the concert ticket where you can come just for the parties and the concert

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