Tudor Women in Portraiture

Tudors Dynasty

RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Today, I’m joined by the lovely Sylvia Barbara Soberton for a fascinating conversation about Tudor women in portraiture. We explore the stories behind the images—like Margaret Beaufort wearing spectacles (and not always dressed like a nun!) and the hidden message tucked inside Elizabeth I’s Exchequer Ring. I also do my best to show you the portraits as we discuss them!

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Host: Rebecca Larson

Guest: Sylvia Barbara Soberton

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0:20.4	The Tudor's Dynasty podcast.
0:23.5	Hello and welcome back to Tudor's Dynasty and Beyond.
0:26.8	I'm your host, Rebecca Larson, and today I'm so happy to welcome back Sylvia Barber Soberton again.
0:32.4	Welcome.
0:33.6	Welcome, Rebecca.
0:34.5	Thank you for having me again.
0:36.0	Oh, it's always a pleasure to have you on the show, Sylvia. You just have like so much knowledge on the tutor period.
0:42.3	And I love talking to you. We could talk forever. And today we are going to talk about your new book again, Secrets of the Tudor Portraits. And did I get the name right?
0:58.0	Yes. Okay. There was one time where I said the name of a book wrong and I didn't have it in front of me so I'm always afraid I'm going to get it wrong,
1:02.6	but Secrets of the Tudor Portraits. And today I really kind of want to focus on some Tudor women in
1:08.2	particular. And I'd love to start with the matriarch Margaret Beauford because I feel
1:14.2	like everybody knows who she is. We recognize her in portraiture and I'm always just so fascinated in
1:22.2	her wardrobe in these portraits and I don't know are you just as fascinated in it as I am? Yes, you can say that I am.
1:31.1	Yes, she was a fascinating historical character to research for me. And the portrait that we are
1:38.4	looking at, the portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, and there are a lot of copies of it,
1:43.3	is also a fascinating study
1:45.7	of a Tudor woman.
1:47.7	It's a very big portrait and she is depicted in dark clothes.
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