As usual, I'd like to start today with a couple of notices.

First of all, I'd like to thank my new Patreon supporters, Natalie, and donating from the grave, it would appear, Eleanor of Aucatain.

Your support means so much to me, so thanks so much to you and all of my other wonderful patrons.

Using your generous donations, I've been able to make some improvements to my home studio recently, including a

brand new laptop that doesn't weigh about 3,000 tonnes, which should make it much more

pleasurable to cut between work, my house, and the Bodleian Library. If you'd like to become a

patron of the Queens of England podcast, then head over to patreon.com forward slash queens of England podcast, where you can

give as little as one dollar per month. I've also had some great iTunes reviews recently, including

one from Mel B in Canada, I assume no relations of Scary Spice, where she got a little over-excited

and started exclaiming things all in caps. These reviews all give me a rather unhealthy ego boost,

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And of course, don't forget about the Tudus Summit, which I spoke about last week.

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If you're new to the show, welcome. To the rest of you, welcome back.

Hello and welcome to the Queens of England podcast.

Supplemental, Elizabeth Souters, Sweden and the Hapsburgs. Before I get going today, I will warn you

ahead of time that when I sat down to plan this episode, I immediately came across two large problems.

Firstly, probably discussed Elizabeth's marriage proposals from the various princes of Europe.

You kind of need to delve into the internal politics and foreign policies of all of the

duchies, kingdoms and empires involved over a period of about three decades. And that's just not

really all that practical to do in one episode. I'm going to do my best to summarize it all in brief,

but if I have piqued your interest at all, I would really recommend that you do some further

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