Hi everyone, it's Natalie Gruniger here from On the Tudor Trail.

A big thank you to Heather from the Renaissance English History podcast for inviting me to take part in this year's Tudor Summit.

I'm delighted and honored to be speaking alongside so many wonderful and talented speakers.

A little background information.

For as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated

by the past and by stories of people who've walked this earth before me. For the last eight

years, I've avidly pursued this passion for history and dedicated many hours and much energy

to researching and writing about the Tudors

through the lens of the great houses, palaces and castles where their tantalizing stories unfurled.

This love of learning history on the very stage where it played out

led me to create in 2009 on the Tudor Trail,

a website dedicated to documenting historic sites associated

with Anne Berlin and sharing information about prominent Tudor personalities and daily life in 16th

century England. In 2013, my debut book in The Footsteps of Anne Boleyn, co-authored with Sarah

Morris, was published in the UK,

followed by in the footsteps of the six wives of Henry VIII in March 2016.

Another collaboration, that was also another collaboration between Sarah and myself.

Why the fascination with places?

Well, these sites are the keepers of history,

the guardians of stories whose protagonists have long returned to dust. They are portals, I think,

between our world and theirs. Through reading, we can come to know the tutors intellectually.

We can learn about the larger-than-life

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