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dot com and secure your seats today the tudors dynasty podcast hello and welcome back to the show i'm your

host rebecca larson and today i'm so pleased to welcome back to the show. I'm your host, Rebecca Larson, and today I'm so pleased to welcome back to the show. Once again, Amy McElroy. Amy, welcome back.

Thanks, Rebecca. I'm really happy to be here. I lived last time. I really enjoyed our conversation last time too. And, you know, I think the last time we talked, you had mentioned

that you had two books out and you were working on a third one to be released in 2025, which is

coming up very shortly. I guess by the time this airs, it will already be 2025. So congratulations.

Thank you very much. But today we're going to talk about your second book, which is called

Women's Lives in the Tudor era. And I think any Tudor fan is obsessed with learning more about

women because, I mean, let's be honest for centuries, it's been all about men, hasn't it?

Yeah, that is very true.

Yeah.

So I think I want to start off today, and this might be a little bit of a curveball for you,

but I'm kind of curious if going into this book, you had any preconceived notions on Tudor women and what their lives looked like,

and did that change by the end?

Yes.

So, to be honest, I didn't expect to find how many different roles were available to women

or the extent to which they actually

contributed to society. And I don't mean that in such a negative way as it sounds. I thought there

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