Hey friends, welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

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

So in case you don't know, you can go over to YouTube and watch all my videos.

The channel is History and Coffee, And you can just search for my name as well, Heather Tesco, History and Coffee.

And you will get it. And you can subscribe there. Thank you to the many people who already subscribe.

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. Should Lady Jane Gray have

actually been called Jane the First? This is one of the many, many topics that tutor enthusiasts

still debate centuries later. I put a poll up last week to ask people what they thought, and the results are pretty

mixed. It's clearly something that we still have thoughts and opinions about. So thank you to

everybody who filled that out. There are so many moments like that in Tudor history, these kind

of sliding glass doors of what ifs and decisions that were made that we can still argue about, that reasonable people

can still disagree about, and it's really fun to get into those debates to look at those

big controversies.

Like was Elizabeth the first right to have killed Mary Queen of Scots?

Did Henry the 8th's will actually matter?

Should Thomas Seymour actually have been executed? Should Catherine

of Aragon have stepped aside? These are like big questions that actually kind of changed the

arc of Tudor history and there are still people on both sides who disagree who argue for one

side or the other. So today we are going to talk about four of the biggest controversies of

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