The Six Tudor Queens – Anne Boleyn with Owen Emmerson and James Peacock

Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

Historic Royal Palaces

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4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The one you’ve been waiting for! Tracy Borman is joined by Dr Owen Emmerson and Palace Host James Peacock, to take on the mammoth task of disrupting the reputation of the second and most famous of the six Tudor Queens, Anne Boleyn. They’ll explore this in the Great Hall of Hampton Court Palace, which remains a symbol of Anne’s triumph and her downfall.

Please be aware that this episode contains references to miscarriages, still births and infant mortality.

This six-part series will aim to do The Six Tudor Queens justice by stripping away unhelpful narratives and myths, to better understand them as women in their own time.

Watch Tracy's mini documentary on the Downfall of Anne Boleyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_fPZsgSD0

See the palace come to life while you listen and explore inside the Great Hall, with this virtual tour of Henry VIII's Tudor Palace:

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/oAVRshA9gG0J9w

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to this new series on the Historic Royal Palaces podcast.
0:08.0	I'm Tracy Borman and I have the huge privilege of being chief curator here at the Palaces.
0:15.0	In this new series, we'll be exploring the lives of the six Tudor queens.
0:20.0	Of course, they all have one man in common,
0:24.1	but as we know, they are so much more
0:26.6	than just wives and queens consort.
0:30.4	In this series, we hope to do these extraordinary queens justice.
0:35.6	But this series will not be biographies of our queens. We'll be exploring and disputing
0:42.3	the interpretations that history has offered of them, as well as talking about what they might
0:49.3	have been like as women in their own time. To get a sense of the context in which they lived, we'll be stepping
0:57.2	into parts of our palaces where they would have walked in a court that was both exciting and toxic
1:04.9	in its temperament. So join me as we dive into the world of the six Tudor queens.
1:11.6	Today we're going to be tackling themes that some listeners may find distressing.
1:29.1	This episode will contain references to miscarriages, stillbirths and fertility issues.
1:44.0	Well, we are here in Base Court in Hampton Court.
1:48.0	This was Cardinal Woolsey's great showpiece before Henry VIII took over the palace.
1:55.0	It's a beautiful, I don't know, do we say late summer, early autumn day, no rain for once.
2:03.6	It's nice and still and I think therefore you really capture
2:06.6	the atmosphere actually of being in the palace all alone.
2:11.6	We have it to ourselves today which is always very, very special.
2:15.6	And I'm so excited today because I'm joined by two, I think we can call them Anne Berlin aficionados.
2:24.3	What these men don't know about Anne frankly is not worth knowing.
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