Henry VI: terrible king

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🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Historian and author Lauren Johnson discusses the life and reign of Henry VI, whose decades on the throne coincided with defeat in the Hundred Years’ War and the disaster of the Wars of the Roses. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.5	The The royal book suggests, in fact, it says very explicitly, that when the king and queen lie together, when they have their marital relations, there shouldn't be anyone else in the room.
0:56.0	And then the author goes on to say, this is what happened all the time, except in King Henry's Day when Lord Say and the Chamberlain would be there.
1:00.2	That was Lauren Johnson on the sex life of Henry the 6th.
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1:39.4	Earlier this month, a major new biography was published on one of England's most disastrous medieval kings.
1:45.0	Henry the 6th, the man who famously presided over defeat in the Hundred Years' War,
1:48.7	and then saw the country riven apart in the Wars of the Roses.
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