This is the Tudor's Dynasty podcast.

And now, Ask the Expert with Steph.

Hello again and welcome back to Ask the Expert on Tudor's Dynasty podcast.

I'm your host, Steph Store, and I'm especially glad to introduce you all

to today's guest, historical novelist and historian Susan Hagenbatham. Welcome, Susan. Thanks for

having me. Well, you're here today to talk with us about a potentially lesser known member of a very

well-known family.

That family is, of course, the Woodville's.

We know Jocketta, we know Edward Vorth's wife, Elizabeth,

we know a couple of the brothers.

But let's talk about Elizabeth's younger sister, Catherine.

So before I get to our listener questions,

I actually wanted to mention that you've written a novel called The Stolen Crown with Catherine as the main character. Right. She shares a

narration with her husband, Henry Stafford, Yucca Buckingham. So then, without giving us any

spoilers about her life, since we'll get to that shortly,

what made you choose her to write about?

Well, when I started, I started writing historical fiction when I became interested in the reign

of Edward 2nd in the 14th century, and researching the 14thth century sort of gradually led me into the 15th century,

and I became sort of obsessed with the Wars of the Roses. And I read a couple of Cardian novels,

you know, novels sympathetic towards Richard III. And they painted the Woodville's as actually horrible people.

I'm not really keen on just accepting things at face value, so I started the research to

Woodville's, and I found them to be a fairly fascinating and I thought likable family.

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