Executed Queens: Mary, Queen of Scots, Anne Boleyn, Katheryn Howard & Jane Grey
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Today I’m joined by PhD student and author Conor Byrne for a fascinating discussion about Mary, Queen of Scots, Anne Boleyn, Katheryn Howard, and Lady Jane Grey. Together, we explore how the narratives surrounding these women have evolved over time — and uncover the striking similarities in their stories of power, downfall, and legacy.
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| 0:55.9 | This is the Tudors Dynasty and Beyond podcast, history with a twist. |
| 1:01.7 | And now your host, Rebecca Larson. |
| 1:04.5 | Hello and welcome back to the show. |
| 1:06.6 | I'm your host, Rebecca Larson. |
| 1:08.2 | And today I'm so happy to welcome back again, Connor Burns. Thank you. Welcome back. Thank you. Yeah, thanks for having me. It's great to be back. We had so much fun the last time we talked, but I feel like it was like almost a year ago. It's been a while. Yeah, yeah. I think, yeah, it might even have been longer. It might have been more like two years ago, I think. Yeah, yeah, it's quite a while back now. So, yeah, great to be back. |
| 1:31.8 | I'm so sorry it took so long for me to have you back. But I'm, you know. Not at all. Well, you've been busy. And I think we kind of talked about it a little bit last time that you're going through the process of getting your PhD. So do you want to talk about that a little bit? Yes, absolutely. So yes, I think, yeah, as you said, since we last spoke, yeah, kind of, yeah, been taking along with that. And I think in the UK PhDs, a bit shorter than in the US. I think it's |
| 2:02.3 | kind of full time. It's kind of up to four years. And I've just gone into the fourth year. So it's kind of, |
| 2:07.7 | you know, getting towards that finish line. And yeah, kind of finalising the final chapter at the |
| 2:14.0 | minutes. And then it'll be a case of the conclusion, editing, all that kind of |
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