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Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit,

the podcast in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs,

from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise,

relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.

Not in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.

At around 11pm, on the 21st of April, 1509, Henry the 7th drew his final breath. He died in the royal

bedchamber at Richmond. Richmond, this stylish Renaissance palace, had been built from 1498, after a fire

devastated the earlier Sheen Palace. Named after the aristocratic title Henry had held during his long period of exile in Brittany,

before he attempted the audacious gamble of fighting Richard III for the English throne,

the rising of Richmond Palace out of Sheen's ashes symbolised Henry the 7th's rise.

It was an astonishing and improbable story.

In 1485, when he, Henry, Earl of Richmond, landed and marched to Bosworth,

he was essentially a foreigner of little importance, a largely forgotten exile.

No English kings since 1066 had less experience of England than he did,

or less training in the rigours of

nobility and kingship. He'd grown up in Wales, only once briefly been to England. He had no

experience of governing, no training as a prince, none of the usual aristocratic connections

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