Tudor Queens: The Power of Jewellery

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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From the mid-15th century to the mid-16th century, there were 10 Queens Consort of England, from Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr. For each of these Queens, jewellery was a way she could signify her status and her legitimacy, display familial and cultural ties, and chart life events - from courtship and marriage, through motherhood, to death.

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Dr. Nicola Tallis, whose book All the Queen's Jewels 1445-1548: Power, Majesty and Display examines the personal and political connections of Queens through the lens of their jewellery.

This episode was edited by Joseph Knight and produced by Rob Weinberg and Elena Guthrie.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit.
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0:20.9	From the mid 15th century to the mid 16th century, the Watton Queens Consult of England.
0:33.0	Beginning with Margaret of Anju, married to Henry VI,
0:36.3	through to Catherine Pa, the sixth wife of Henry VIII,
0:39.7	each one of these remarkable queens used jewels and jewelry to establish and enhance their
0:45.3	personal and royal identities. Now, jewels help us chart a queen's central life
0:50.8	events, courtship, marriage and motherhood all the way through to her death,
0:55.2	and can help illuminate how these women each navigated their way through their personal
0:59.8	and political relationships. Jewels were a central part of a queen's symbolic language,
1:05.4	with which she could signify her status and her legitimacy, and they could also be a way to show
1:10.7	familial and cultural ties. They were emblems of a queen's power, wealth and authority.
1:16.6	And so they can help us understand the ways in which each of these fascinating women
1:21.6	found their own particular paths as queens of England.
1:29.7	Here with me today to discuss this is Dockler, Nicola Tallus,
1:33.6	historian of three books on women of this period, Crown of Blood, the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane
1:39.7	Gray, Uncrowned Queen, the fateful life of Margaret Bofford, and Elizabeth Rival, the tumultuous
1:45.6	tale of Lettersnor's Countess of Leicester. Homer's recent work is based on her doctoral research.
1:52.0	It's called All the Queen's Jewels, 1445 to 1548, power, majesty and display, and it examines
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