Greetings fellow time travellers, great have you with me for another journey through time and space.

How many journeys like this have we made together?

The story of our shared human history and the insights it gives me gives us, well it certainly bam for my soul I hope it's the same for as

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Okay it's time to strap yourselves into the time machine as we set off on the next stop on my love letter to the world.

Record, microphone, action. A Queen and an Emperor separated by thousands of miles. The lives and reigns of those two powerful leaders run parallel with each other.

Despite their long reigns, they have little concern about or contact with one another, but as their lives drew to close the paths of the people

they ruled over were about to converge, causing a seismic shock that will realign the fates and set the world on a different path.

Hi Neil, last week our travels took us to the year 1588 as the mighty Spanish armada was being decimated by a Protestant wind. Where are we this week?

Hi Paul, this week we're stepping, gingerly perhaps, into the next century.

By now it's the 1600s as England and her Queen are making a

killer political move that unforeseen consequences will play out over the next few

centuries and have a profound impact on the shape of the world to come.

Well we're in, well I suppose we're kind of kick off in England, but we end up in the Indian subcontinent.

This is actually a story that, believe it or believe it, no, it was really, it was in my mind for the longest time

Because of a fun little pub fact that I knew about chess

That I had picked up along the roads, but I don't know. When I was a teenager I suppose. I've never been much of a chess player, but I've always been quite fascinated by the game of chess.

There's so much about it, the depth of it, and the intellect that goes into and the strategizing and all of the rest of it.

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