Hey friend, if you're like me, you probably don't think of Florida when you think of

Tudor England. I think about a lot when I think about Florida. Tudor England isn't one of those

things. But I recently sat down with Misty Barrack to talk about the very real and very surprising

Tudor connections to the early colonial history of the southeastern U.S. From Elizabeth I.S.

Diplomatic interest in Protestant colonies in modern-day Jacksonville

to Francis Drake's fiery raid on St. Augustine to the strange legend of a Welsh prince

who may have reached Alabama, Alabama in the 12th century.

Go Bama.

Anyway, Mitzie walked us through the overlooked ways that

Tudor politics, religion, and ambition reached across the Atlantic long before Jamestown.

If you've ever wondered what Tudor history looks like when you step off the cobbled streets of London

and into the pine forest of Florida, this is for you. Now, Misty will also be speaking at

TudorCon this year. And after hearing this interview, you're going to want to grab a front row seat.

So, of course, you can still come. There's a couple of spaces left to come in person, or you can

grab your online TudorCon from home ticket to join from anywhere in the world.

Actually, I said Go Bama. And I did some grad school at the University of Tennessee, and I was

working there at the time, so I'm actually going to change all of that to Go-Vals.

You know, might make some people angry.

I just had to set the record straight.

Go-Valls.

Not Go-Bama.

It's got sidetracked. Anyway, Englandcast.com

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