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

the podcasts 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.

By the time Queen Anne died in 1714, the Stuart story was running out of road.

After decades of civil war, revolution, religious fear and political improvisation,

Britain faced a question that had haunted the restoration from the start.

Who could rule, on what terms, and by whose authority? The answer that emerged,

the Hanabarian succession, was bold, controversial and carefully engineered, and it would

reshape the British state for generations. Our earlier episodes of this Restoration series

have brought us to this moment.

James II's rigid belief in divine right and his catastrophic fall,

William and Mary's revolutionary joint monarchy and the limits it placed on royal power,

and Queen Anne's determined, often underestimated effort to hold a fragile political settlement together.

The Hannaverian succession was not a clean break from that world, but its culmination.

The final attempt to secure Protestantism, parliamentary authority and political stability

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