Hello everybody, exciting news. This is a podcast all about Margaret Bowfort and Henry the

Seven. Yes, the one you've all been waiting for, it's the repeat of the excellent Nicola

Talis' podcast that we did more than a year ago now. We bring you the best from the history

of archive every week and this is one of them. Margaret Bowfort, Mother of Henry the Seven.

This week in 1485 Henry the Seventh was crowned King of England. It was the climax of a rather

unexpected journey and a journey shaped very much by the guiding hand of his mother. Margaret

Bowfort is truly the chewed of matriarch. Nicola Talis is a brilliant historian and she was it was

great to have her on the podcast. We're bringing these once a week because the whole of the history

here archive is now not available on iTunes or wherever you get your pods. It is only available

on historyhits.tv. It's our new digital history channel. We got audio on there. We've got video on

if you use the code pod1pod1 you get a month for free and you get a second month for just one pound,

euro or dollar. So after checking out this podcast learning all about the beginnings of the chewed

dynasty you should head over and become a subscriber. Be great to have you there. In the meantime,

enjoy this chat with Nicola Talis.

This is the woman. She's not the chewed of matriarch. She is the woman from whom all our subsequent

royals have been descended. Yeah, she absolutely is. That's quite often forgotten. So I'm really

pleased that you highlighted that straight away. Who is who watching or where what we're in

I've kind of plantation at family of her birth. So who where did she, you know, was she anywhere

near the throne? Yeah, she was but nobody would have considered her as a potential contender for

the throne. The key point with Margaret and her lineage was that she was a great granddaughter of

John Gorn, the third surviving son of Edward III. So that was where her royal blood stemmed from.

Same as Henry IV Henry V. Yeah. But the key factor with Margaret was that she came from the illegitimate

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