The Six Tudor Queens – Jane Seymour with Nicola Tallis

Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

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4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re talking about Queen number three, Jane Seymour. Once again Tracy Borman is joined by a fantastic guest, Dr Nicola Tallis will bring Jane to life for us.

Always thought of as the favourite wife, Jane Seymour is best known for giving birth to the male heir that her husband so desired, and for being the one in the rhyme who sadly died. But we don’t know very much about her as a woman and as an individual. In this episode Tracy and Nicola will shed light on this, revealing that Jane may have had more to her than history has allowed.

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

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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. Of course they all have one man in common,
0:23.9	but as we know they are so much more than just wives and Queen's Consort. In this series, we hope to do
0:32.7	these extraordinary queens justice, but this series will not be biographies of our Queens.
0:40.5	We'll be exploring and disputing the interpretations that history has offered of them, as well as
0:48.0	talking about what they might have been like as women in their own time. To get a sense of the context in which they lived, we'll be
0:57.0	stepping into parts of our palaces where they would have walked in a court that was both exciting
1:03.7	and toxic in its temperament. So join me as we dive into the world of the six Tudor queens.
1:11.6	Well, hello listeners, and you are in for such a treat today because I'm in for a treat.
1:31.5	I'm going to be taking you to my favourite room in the whole of Hampton Court with one of my favourite people.
1:40.4	Dr. Nicola Talis, author, historian, broadcaster.
1:45.9	Now she knows a thing or two about those six Tudor queens.
1:51.2	And I'm going to be talking to her about Queen number three.
1:55.7	So Nicola, welcome to Hampton Court.
1:58.5	Thank you so much, Tracy.
2:00.2	Always lovely to be here chatting to you.
2:02.5	And I'm looking forward to our conversation about Jane.
2:05.4	Oh, I can't wait to hear your take on Jane Seymour.
2:09.5	I have so many questions.
2:11.6	And I don't know about you, but there's something special about being in a rather important space that we know is connected with Jane,
2:22.3	even if it's changed over the years, and what the best thing is we get to go behind that
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