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search for Heather. And there I am. So let's get right into it. Today we are talking about

New Year's gift giving. Of course, the tutors did not give Christmas gifts. They gave gifts on the

eighth day of Christmas, which was New Year's day. For the tutors, New Year was when they gave

their gifts. So all of that kind of last-minute shopping crunch was all done at the end of December. Not like they did last-minute shopping crunch. But, you know, the thoughts about gifts and everything like that was for New Year's Day, not for Christmas Day. Christmas Day was the time that was set aside for the religious feast and, you know, the religious

observance and the New Year's was the gift giving. And it was very, very important when you were

at court to give the right gift. So today we are going to talk about the gifts that Henry the 8th gave,

the gifts that he received, and just general gift giving at the Tudor court.

So the right gift could earn you favor. It could earn you a promotion. It could even win you

forgiveness if you had offended sometime throughout the year. But of course, there was a very fine line

that you had to walk too. If you went too flashy, if you gave too much of a fancy gift, you risked offending somebody who was more prominent than you. And so this wasn't just for gifting to the king. This was, you know, if you were lower down the social rank and you wanted to give a gift to somebody who was a little bit higher than you, if you gave something that was too flashy, you might offend them because it'd be like, why is this lower

person giving me this gift that's worth so much money? But if you did it, if you gave a gift that

was too low, too humble, then it'd be like, what? They can't give me a better gift than this. So

there was like a lot of backstory behind the

gifting at the Tudor court. There was a ton of pressure. I can't even imagine. I don't do well with that.

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