She Never Said Her Mother's Name. But She Never Took Off the Ring.

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Heather Teysko

History

4.6 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Today is May 19th. On this day in 1536, Anne Boleyn was executed on Tower Green. And in a royal nursery somewhere in Hertfordshire, a two-year-old girl had no idea her mother had just been beheaded on her father's orders.That little girl grew up to be Elizabeth I. And she never - not once in more than four decades on the throne - spoke publicly about her mother. We're looking at what happened to Elizabeth in the immediate aftermath of Anne's execution, how she grew up in the strange in-between space of illegitimacy and royal favour, and how Anne's fingerprints are all over Elizabeth's reign - the religion, the image-making, the famous refusal to marry - even though Elizabeth never said her name out loud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.6	Today is May 19th, and if you know your tutor history, you know exactly what day it is.
0:56.2	Today in 1536, Anne Boleyn was executed on Tower Green. She was probably in her mid-30s,
1:02.1	though historians still argue about exactly when she was born. She had been the queen for three
1:08.2	years, and she had been convicted of adultery, incest, and treason
1:12.7	in a trial that most historians now consider a total setup. Actually, people at the time
1:18.5	considered it a setup, too. And she died by most accounts with extraordinary composure,
1:24.3	giving a speech that managed to be both legally careful and also devastating.
1:30.4	I'm not going to do a full Ann video today. I've done those. There's links in the description.
1:34.9	Up here, you can go watch them. But what I want to talk about today is what happened to her daughter.
1:41.0	Because on May 19, 1536, somewhere in the Royal Nursery at Hunston, a two-year-old and eight,
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