Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Myelt from Aaron

Manky.

Listener discretion is advised.

One quick note before we begin and I'm sure you are absolutely tired of hearing me say

it, but I wrote a book.

It's a novel called Anatomy, a Love Story, and if you love spooky stories about people

in history, I really think you're going to love it.

It takes place in 19th century Edinburgh and it's everything I love, like the reason

I made Noble Blood in novel form.

So if you haven't preordered, please, please do me a favor and check it out wherever you

buy books here at local indie bookstore.

It would mean so much.

And now the episode.

For the woman we know today as Queen Elizabeth I, growing up Elizabeth's royal status was

far from secure.

Her mother Ann Bolin had climbed from lady in waiting to queen only to fall out of favor

and lose her head in one of the quickest and most dramatic downfalls in royal history.

Little Elizabeth was only three at the time and it's not quite certain how aware she

was when it came to the matter of her mother's death or the matter of her own subsequent

loss of status.

Perhaps apocryphal age she has said to have asked one of her father's courtiers, why

was I lady princess yesterday and lady Elizabeth today?

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