Part Two - Misunderstood Queens: Dispelling the Myths
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Here is the second part to the last episode!
Powerful queens throughout history have often been misunderstood and reduced to stereotypes, as they were judged through biased lenses that distorted their actions and motivations. By examining their lives, we can dispel these myths and gain a better understanding of their true character and legacy. Women like Empress Matilda and Eleanor of Aquitaine defied expectations and challenged the status quo, proving that women have played important roles in history by breaking gender norms.
Today, Steph is joined by Dr. Valerie Schutte. Valerie Schutte earned her PhD in History from the University of Akron, and is author or editor of eight books on Queen Mary I, unexpected heirs, and queens in Shakespeare. She is currently working on a cultural biography of Anne of Cleves and edited collections on Tudor myths, the making and remaking of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I, and Mary I and Continental humanism. Valerie's research interests include Queen Mary I, Anne of Cleves, Tudor queenship, book dedications, books related to Tudor kings.
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Credits:
Host: Steph Stohrer
Guest: Dr. Valerie Schutte
Edited by: Rebecca Larson
Voice Over: David Black
Music: Ketsa, Alexander Nakarada, and Winnie the Moog
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Ask the Expert. |
| 0:04.8 | No, this isn't Steph. |
| 0:06.2 | This is Rebecca, but I'm here to let you know that there is now a part two to misunderstood Queens. |
| 0:13.7 | So sit back and enjoy the rest of the conversation between Steph and Valerie. |
| 0:19.7 | The Tudors Dynasty Podcast. |
| 0:28.9 | This is the Tudor's Dynasty podcast. |
| 0:32.8 | And now, Ask the Expert with Steph. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello again, Tudor family. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome back to the Tudor's Dynasty podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm your host, Steph Store, and on today's Ask the Expert, |
| 0:45.9 | I'm so happy to introduce you to historian Valerie Schute. |
| 0:50.3 | Valerie is here today to discuss misunderstood and forgotten queens of England. |
| 0:58.4 | Let's talk about Jane Seymour. |
| 1:00.7 | I think up until this point in our conversation, |
| 1:04.9 | we've been trying to kind of dispel the negative misconceptions about a lot of these women who were wrongly accused of different, |
| 1:14.7 | you know, awful things. In the case of Jane Seymour, she is positioned as perfection, |
| 1:20.3 | and she's never done anything wrong, and she's just the best of the best, and, you know, |
| 1:26.6 | she's everything that Henry E. 8th could have asked for. |
| 1:29.4 | I think that it turned out that way because she was the one that gave him a son and she died early and everybody feels bad for her. |
| 1:39.9 | And not to suggest that she wasn't great, but was she as perfect in every way as we tend to think of her as? |
| 1:50.1 | I think you're exactly right that the myth around Jane Seymour comes from the fact that she gave Henry his only legitimate son and that she died in childbirth. |
| 2:00.7 | So she performed her duty as queen, you know, as she was supposed to, she continued the dynasty, |
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