Hey friend, welcome back to the YouTube channel for the Renaissance English History Podcast.

I am your host, Heather.

I have been podcasting on Tudor England since 2009 with the original Tudor History podcast.

This channel is where I put all of my episodes from all of my shows, as well as lots of extra

content like this video right here.

So every month, I do author chats for patrons and YouTube members, members of the

channel and patrons. And so you're going to see the chat with Carol Ann Lloyd that we had yesterday.

Carol Ann Lloyd is an awesome person. She speaks at TudorCon. She has spoken at every TudorCon

since the beginning. She's written a book called The Tudors by the Numbers. That was her first book. And then her new book that's just come out is called Courting the Virgin Queen. It's all about all of Elizabeth's suitors, which is always a popular topic. So in this interview, we talked about a lot of different things from how it is that a princess

in the tutor period managed to reach the ripe old age of her mid-20s without being married,

which was very unusual for that time.

We also talked about some of the surprising things that Carol Ann found doing her research,

some of the surprising suitors.

We talked about how Parliament felt about her being single, about Elizabeth being single,

some of the forces pushing Elizabeth towards marriage, and then also why Elizabeth was so against

marriage, what she thought about marriage in general, not just the psychology of having

seen her mother and her stepmothers dying childbirth, but some of the other things she might

have been thinking about. So enjoy this conversation. If you want to be part of conversations like

this live ongoingly, you can either join the YouTube channel here by clicking join this channel,

or you can become a patron on Patreon at patreon.com slash Englandcast. And we try to do

monthly chats like this with authors. Thank you so very much. Enjoy the chat.

Recording in progress. There we go. i always forget to hit record and then like

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