Margaret Pole part 3

Queens Podcast

Comedy, History

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Here it is, the finale to the wild life of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury and last great Plantagenet. What a rollercoaster it's been. We jump back into Henry VIII’s chaos: Catherine of Aragon cast aside, Anne Boleyn crowned (and gone), Thomas Cromwell on the rise, and our fiercely Catholic Margaret trying to keep her head We follow Reginald Pole’s “turbo treason” across Europe and watch as the Exeter Conspiracy brings down Margaret and her family. From skipped coronations and pointed petitions to house arrest and the Tower, we unpack how a 60-something noblewoman became the poster child for Tudor paranoia, and why her 1541 execution by bill of attainder stunned Europe. Time stamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:39 Recap of Margaret Pole's Life 02:48 Margaret Pole's Political Struggles 11:10 Reginald Pole's Defiance 22:28 Margaret Pole's Family Dynamics 26:03 Reginald Pole and the Exeter Conspiracy 28:18 Jeff's Arrest and Interrogation 30:22 Margaret's Incriminating Evidence 33:05 Speculations and Interrogations 40:28 Margaret's Imprisonment and Execution 46:18 Margaret's Legacy Sources: https://rebeccastarrbrown.com/2018/01/13/the-last-plantagenet-margaret-pole-countess-of-salisbury/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi7lMHlQty0 https://tudortimes.co.uk/people/margaret-plantagenet-life-story/the-wrath-of-a-prince-1538-1541 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5LUAzFiDpEbj0QiP92Ac33 Queens podcast is part of Airwave Media podcast network. Please get in touch with advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Want more Queens? Head to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, check out our⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ merch store⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Welcome to True Spies.
0:06.9	The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:12.5	Suddenly out of the dark that's appeared in Laub.
0:14.5	You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:18.1	What do they know?
0:19.2	What are their skills?
0:20.4	And what would you do in their position?
0:22.7	Vengeance felt good. Seeing these people pay for what they'd done felt righteous.
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0:33.6	Hi, this is Katie. And this is Nathan.
0:37.9	And you're listening to Queens Podcast, the show about women in history.
0:58.2	Hey, Nathan.
0:59.9	Hey, Katie.
1:01.4	How have you been this weekend? Not too shabby.
1:03.7	I kind of feeling a little nervous about ending the life of the legend that is Margaret Pohl.
1:14.9	I know.
1:16.7	This has been such a good three-part series and learning a whole lot about she's really
1:23.2	this Royals Royal in my opinion.
1:26.6	She really is that bitch, isn she yes she is absolutely so i
1:32.2	really don't want to end it but we kind of have to and because it ends on such a spoiler alert
1:39.1	such a no stone cold bummer before we get into that though uh we've got a couple of
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