What If Henry VIII Had Died in 1513?
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
What if Henry VIII had died while campaigning in France? This episode started with what felt like an obvious answer—but quickly turned into a far more complicated and fascinating conversation about succession. We explore the unexpected paths history could have taken, and trust us: this one went places we didn’t anticipate.
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Hosts:
Rebecca Larson
Amy McElroy
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Off the Record, a series on Tudor's Dynasty and Beyond. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Rebecca Larson. |
| 0:12.8 | And I'm Amy McElroy. |
| 0:14.5 | And it's Sunday. |
| 0:17.0 | So I'm excited. |
| 0:18.7 | I love our Sunday episodes. |
| 0:20.2 | We always get to do, well, recently we've been doing a lot of what if episodes because people have been clamoring for them. What was the last episode we did? Oh, what if Elizabeth the first had died from smallpox in 1562? And what kind of feedback did we get from that episode? |
| 0:42.0 | It looks like people enjoyed it. |
| 0:44.0 | So I have got some of the comments to share with you all. |
| 0:48.7 | So some of them are again specific to the episode. |
| 0:53.5 | Some are more general about the series so trisha says she's |
| 0:57.4 | addicted to this so that's nice um brilliant episode did not see that twist coming at the end oh yes |
| 1:06.9 | i didn't see the twist coming either so that was a great twist um. Bernadette says, thank you ladies. It's not easy doing these podcasts. It takes a lot of dedication, discipline and hard work. Keep going. The figure speaks for themselves. And the subject is interesting too. So thank you, Bernadette. Oh, that's amazing. This is possibly one of my favorite comments on it. I did actually laugh out loud at this one so it's from |
| 1:30.4 | mary who says another amazing podcast amy just came up with the tudor dynasty Voldemort he who shall |
| 1:37.4 | not be named I burst out laughing when I had her reference to him dare I write his name |
| 1:43.0 | what if he survived Kirk O'Field? |
| 1:46.0 | Too much to contemplate looking forward to next week. |
| 1:49.2 | Yeah, that was great. |
| 1:51.8 | This one's interesting and I will be going down this avenue. |
| 1:56.6 | So Molly says, I enjoyed the Tony Robinson special where he'd chased down the Hastings line. |
| 2:02.9 | And apparently it's on YouTube, so I'm going to find it and watch it. |
| 2:06.6 | Yeah. |
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