Hi, friend. Welcome back to the Renaissance English History podcast. I am Heather, and I am delighted to have welcomed Sarah Gristwood back to my channel and podcast just this week to talk about the Tudors in Love. It is love time, love day, and she's written this book called The Tudors in Love all about the history of

courtly love and how courtly love influenced the tutors. Really, really interesting, a super

good deep dive into that. Highly recommend it. So one of the things I do for YouTube channel

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to join live in our next month's author chat. All right, let's get started with this chat with Sarah Gristwood.

Sarah Gristwood is an English journalist and author. She was born in Kent, grew up in Dover. She's

written as a journalist for a number of British papers, including The Times, in Kent, grew up in Dover. She's written as a

journalist for a number of British papers, including The Times, The Guardian, and the Telegraph.

She's written historical biographies, as well as fiction and contributed to television

documentaries. Her historical biography, Arbella, England's Lost Queen, is about Lady Arbella

Stewart, an English noblewoman who was considered

a possible successor to Elizabeth the first we've talked about her on this channel. She also wrote

the fabulous Game of Queens, all about queenship in the 16th century. I really love that as well.

So thank you to Sarah Gristwood for joining us, and I'm just going to turn it over to our talk.

So what inspired you to look at the theme of courtly love, and your book kind of transcends

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