Hello and welcome back.

After the huge success of the mini series on Queen Mary the First, I invited back Dr. Johanna Strong,

and she has brought to us another great topic.

I hope you enjoy.

The Tudors Dynasty podcast.

Music Podcast. Welcome to this episode of the Tudors Dynasty Podcasts mini-series on Queen Ship. I am your host, Dr. Johanna Strong, and as you've heard already in our previous

episodes, we are traveling through time and around the world to learn more about global

queenship. On this episode, I am joined again by Jessica Storeschak and by Dr. Cindy McCreary.

And we're going to hear more about queenship and empire, looking this time at Elizabeth II. Jess is a historian of monarchy focusing on the 19th and 20th

centuries. Her main research topics include the Canadian monarchy, royal tours, and representations of the monarchy in the press.

She also works for the new site Royal Central and has a website that focuses on making history and culture broadly accessible.

And you can find that website at unhistorianabouttown.com.

We also have Dr. Cindy McCreary, who is joining us to talk again about Elizabeth

the second. She's currently at the University of Sydney and specializes in visual and

material culture, particularly as it relates to British Empire and British royalty.

So thank you both very much for coming on. I'm really excited to have a chat with you both.

Thank you for having us, Joanna. Thank you. So let's dive right in. So the first question that I

have for you, and we'll start with Jess, is what got you

interested in queenship, especially in the idea of queenship and that relationship with the British

Empire? So I was born in the late 80s, and I feel like this answer will probably be common to many people.

I, when I was about 10, I started reading the Royal Diaries series, which are a young adult series

where it looks at a different female royal, usually in their teen years. And they have all sorts of royals from across the globe

...