Hey friends, welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

This is the weekly highlight reel of videos that I have put out on YouTube.

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And then what I've started doing is weekly highlight reels of some of the videos that have

gone out on YouTube that would be of interest to the podcast listeners as well. So thanks for

listening. And you can also, like I said, go over and join me on YouTube history and copy and

search for Heather. And there I am. So let's get right into it. Have you ever read a

tutor biography and found yourself shouting, no, don't do it, don't do it, when the person

you're reading about is doing something that you know is not going to end well? Well, you're not

alone in that. The tutorudor era is a gold mine

of dramatic decisions and colossal miscalculations. Some of these errors cost people their lives.

Others damaged England's position on the world stage. And some are just downright embarrassing. So today we are going to count down five of

the worst tutor mistakes. Some are personal disasters like a father who managed to get his daughter

executed after she had already been spared once. Others involve misguided diplomacy, espionage gone wrong,

and rebellions that probably should have stayed as diary entries. Let's dive in to the top

five tutor mistakes. Let's get started with a really bad decision to argue theology with your very

broody husband who was very changeable and also could have you killed. And that's what

Catherine Parr did. Catherine Parr was Henry VIII's

sixth and final wife. And unlike her immediate predecessor, she was really, really intelligent,

and she somehow managed to live to tell the tale of being married to Henry, but just barely

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