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Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Episode 312: Three Who Might Have Ruled

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Heather Teysko

History

4.6624 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In the early years of Elizabeth I’s reign, the throne was anything but secure. With no husband and no children, three names rose as potential heirs: Lady Katherine Grey, legal heir by Henry VIII’s will; Henry Hastings, the Protestant council’s quiet favorite; and Mary, Queen of Scots, the dynastic threat watched by all of Europe. This episode looks at the rivals Elizabeth refused to name, and how each of them waited for a crown that never came. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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supplied. In November 1558, England gained a new monarch and a new problem. Elizabeth Tudor,

1:10.3

25 years old, unmarried, and childless,

1:13.7

stepped into the role of Queen with the weight of a dynasty balanced on a very thin thread.

1:21.3

Her accession was met not with jubilation alone,

1:25.3

but also with a bit of calculation.

1:28.1

Those who had survived the rapid fire shifts of power under Henry VIII, Edward the 6th, and Jane Gray's nine days, as well as Mary the First, had learned one lesson very clearly.

1:40.9

A crown without a clear next air was not a blessing. It was a pews.

1:48.6

The memory of 1553 still lingered. Edward the 6th had barely been in his grave before two rival

1:54.9

queens, Jane Grey and Mary Tudor, had raised standards in their names. Armies had marched, proclamations were issued and revoked,

2:03.9

and ordinary people had been forced to declare where their loyalties lay

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