The Six Tudor Queens with Tracy Borman

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

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

In this new series Chief Curator Tracy Borman will guide us through the well-known lives of the six Tudor queens who all had one man common.

This six-part series will aim to do the Queens justice whilst discussing some of the interpretations that history has offered of them. We’ll talk about what they might have been like as women in their own time, and reflect on the language we use when we talk about them now. To get a sense of the context in which they lived, we’ll be stepping into the parts of our palaces where they would have walked, in a court that was both exciting and toxic in its temperament. 

Tracy will explore all this with a stellar cast of historians, all experts on the Queens. So join us next Thursday, and every two weeks after that, as we dive into the world of The Six Tudor Queens.

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. Of course, they all have one man in common,
0:24.3	but as we know, they are so much more than just wives and queens consort. In this series,
0:31.6	we hope to do these extraordinary queens justice. But this series will not be biographies of our queens.
0:40.3	We'll be exploring and disputing the interpretations that history has offered of them, as well as talking about what they might have been like as women in their own time.
0:52.3	To get a sense of the context in which they lived,
0:56.0	we'll be stepping into parts of our palaces where they would have walked
1:00.0	in a court that was both exciting and toxic in its temperament.
1:06.0	And we'll do all this with a stellar cast of historians, all experts on the queens.
1:13.5	I can't wait to explore this history with you all.
1:16.9	So join us next Thursday for the first episode, which will give us some background on Tudor England.
1:24.5	And we'll of course feature our first Queen Catherine of Aragon.

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