The bigamy trial that scandalised Georgian England
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🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:44.5 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, |
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| 1:02.3 | I'm Ellie Gawthorne. In April 1776, as George Washington's forces were preparing to defend New York, |
| 1:07.8 | and Britain faced the loss of its American colonies. London's society and its newspapers were focused not on events across the Atlantic, but on the trial of a widowed |
| 1:12.7 | Duchess Countess, Elizabeth Chudley. The charge against her, bigamy. Elizabeth's trial |
| 1:19.4 | would become one of the most famous of the age, igniting the interest of two future kings and the |
| 1:25.3 | glittering social set of the day. In today's episode, you'll be |
| 1:29.2 | hearing from the author and historian Catherine Ostler, whose new book, The Duchess Countess, |
| 1:35.6 | the woman who scandalised a nation, reconsider Chudley's story and their reaction of Georgian society. |
| 1:42.6 | Putting the questions to Catherine was our acting digital editor, Eleanor Evans. |
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