Hi buddy, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. We are reminded recently that the queen

is mortal. She has been in hospital. She has put her back out, was unable to attend the

annual remembrance commemorations in Whitehall. She is withdrawing from public view for a

couple of weeks, were told maybe a couple of months. She is deep into her 90s. It shouldn't

come as a huge surprise. She seems like she's been there forever. Anyway, that's nature

of heritry monarchy folks. It all depends on the beating heart of the sovereign to all

two human flesh, muscle, sinews, blood supply of a fellow human being. And Britain's unusual,

in the world, for still having a system of heritry monarchy. I'm going to have a

favorite story. It's written in history of that monarchy, Tracy Bournemon is coming on

the podcast now to talk about the British monarchy for the last thousand years. We talk about

some of the challenges around succession. We talk about some of the successes and some

of the failures. It's a great thumb. Tracy Bournemon has been on the podcast several

times. She's curated a start role, Percy. She's an expert, particularly in the 16th

century. She's written beautifully about Thomas Cromwell. She's come on to talk about

the true, the real Thomas Cromwell. What a hit of a mental might have got right and wrong.

Mostly spoiler, Tracy thinks she got it right. So it's an interesting episode. Enjoy

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