S1.39 Mary I

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🗓️ 15 October 2011

⏱️ 64 minutes

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A lack of male Tudors meant that in 1553 a woman would, for the first time, inherit the throne. Edward VI wished his cousin, Lady Jane Grey, to take the throne but instead it was his older sister, Mary. Mary was Henry VIII's oldest child had seen her fortunes fluctuate dramatically. Beloved by Henry VIII but ostracised for failing to accept his Supremacy, only to be restored to his full affection before being ostracised by her brother, Edward VI, for refusing to comply with his Protestant reforms. Her unlikely triumph in 1553 was a sadly fleeting, for her unpopular marriage to Philip of Spain and failure to produce an heir made her reign troubled and unhappy, while the burnings of Protestant led to her being defined merely as 'Bloody Mary'. If you lose track of who's who, have a look at our handy guide for this week's episode: https://rexfactor.wordpress.com/english-monarchs/whos-who/tudors/whos-who-mary-i/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rex Factor!
0:25.0	This week, Mary the First, with your hosts Graham Duke and Ali Hood. Hello, we're back.
0:28.0	We are welcome to direct expansion
0:29.5	of being all the Kings and Queens of England from Alfred the Great
0:31.6	to Elizabeth II.
0:33.0	Apologies for the delay with Mary.
0:35.0	As some of you will know, if you follow us on Twitter or Facebook,
0:38.0	I done all the reading, we are ready to go,
0:40.0	and then I had a problem with the computer.
0:42.0	It turned out to be the hard drive drive and I lost all the research.
0:44.8	Disaster.
0:45.8	Disaster. We've had lots of messages from people.
0:47.8	We have.
0:48.8	Thank you very much all those.
0:49.8	There's one here for Matthew who left a comment on the website because he was feeling
0:54.4	unwell he was in his sickbed so you listen for the very start to Richard the Lionheart
0:57.8	In one go in his sick bed generally while he was ill. I don't know if it was one
1:03.2	a hero. He gets a X factor. But he said he drawn up mental images of us
1:07.9	through the listening and apparently I look like James May and you thus look like
1:12.4	the hamster, Richard Hammond. I'm not sure how far we could take that.
1:17.0	I think I mean you there's similarities there not in looks but I could see the James menu. Although ironically if one of us were to dress like James May I
1:26.2	think that would be you. Yeah fair enough. For any American
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