The Six Tudor Queens – Katherine Parr with Sarah Gristwood

Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

Historic Royal Palaces

London, Palace, Tower, Historic, Conservation, Royal, Lecture, Learning, Kensington, Hampton, Kew, Banqueting, History, Court, Of, House, Palaces

4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Katherine Parr is the final Tudor Queen in our series. Was she the nursemaid who looked after and survived her husband, or was she much more than that?

In this final episode of our Six Queens Series, Tracy Borman and historian Sarah Gristwood acquaint us with the woman behind the myths, an intelligent, strong and resourceful champion of her own agenda.

This episode also concludes the series with a reflection on the legacy of the Six Tudor Queens.

To view the painting of the Family of Henry VIII, and the Haunted Gallery where it is kept go to:

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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.
1:24.0	Well, hello listeners. Welcome to, I'm very sad to say, the final episode of this Six Queens series. And I am here at the foot of the Haunted Gallery. And as the name suggests, we've had a number of sightings along here. And it's particularly atmospheric at the moment because the palace has just been closed to the public.
1:50.0	The doors are locked and bolted. We've got it all to ourselves.
1:55.0	Evening is starting to gather in and yeah, the walls seem to kind of breathe the history as we're standing here.
2:06.0	And I am delighted to be joined by historian, author, broadcaster, Sarah Christwood.
2:13.5	Sarah, welcome.
2:14.7	Thank you.
2:16.1	And of course, we are talking this evening about the last of the six
2:22.4	queens, Catherine Parr, who is very closely associated, not just with Hampton Court, but with the space
2:32.4	where we're going to be recording this evening.
2:37.0	But before we start on Catherine's story, I'd love to get a reaction from you.
2:43.0	I mean, what's it like for you being here, out of hours, in a space associated with the woman you're going to be discussing? Oh, it's the out of hours that makes all the difference.
2:54.5	I hate to say it since not everyone gets to have it to themselves,
2:58.3	but there is something very magical about it.
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