When the Tudors Hit the Road: Royal Progresses with Carol Ann Lloyd

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Heather Teysko

History

4.6 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Tudor monarchs didn’t just sit on thrones—they moved with them. In this special interview, historian Carol Ann Lloyd joins me to explore the world of Tudor progresses: the royal road trips that brought the court (and the mess) to towns across England. We chat about: Why Henry VII hit the road just months after becoming king How nobles went bankrupt trying to impress Elizabeth I The epic disaster of Henry VIII’s progress with Catherine Howard Robert Dudley’s full-blown 1575 Kenilworth Proposal-palooza (mermaids! fireworks! matching portraits!) And yes—mud, plague, and poop logistics. It’s part political strategy, part royal flex, and 100% fascinating. Don’t miss it! 📚 Books by Carol Ann Lloyd: 👉 The Tudors by Numbers 👉 Courting the Virgin Queen 🎧 Listen to her podcast: British History: Royals, Rebels, and Romantics: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/british-history-royals-rebels-and-romantics/id1516524780 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	If you are the kind of tutor nerd who daydreams about velvet gowns and muddy roads
0:37.3	and Elizabeth I'm
0:38.1	invited to your house with 1,500 of her closest friends. This one's going to be for you. In this
0:44.4	video, I'm joined by my friend and longtime TudorCon speaker, Carol Ann Lloyd, author of The Tudors
0:50.4	by Numbers and Courting the Virgin Queen, and the host of British History Royals,
0:55.3	Rebels and Romantics, her podcast, for a joyful deep dive into the world of Tudor progresses.
1:02.3	These Royal Road Trips were part political theater, part logistics nightmare, and part
1:07.8	excuse to show off your peacocks and your fireworks. Caroline walks us through
1:12.2	everything from Henry the 8th's calculated trips up north to Elizabeth's 19-day romantic pageant
1:19.1	slash PR Blitz at Kenilworth, complete with mermaids, water pageants, and wishful thinking from Robert Dudley.
1:26.8	We also talk about how local towns would
1:28.7	scramble to fix their roads, how noble hosts nearly bankrupted themselves, and even the time
1:34.3	when one of Henry the 8th's progresses turned into a disaster on multiple fronts,
1:39.3	spoiler, the King of Scotland, ghosts him and also his wife is probably cheating on him.
1:44.3	This is one of my favorite kinds of conversations, fun, full of stories, and grounded in the
1:50.2	kind of history that makes you wonder how they pulled any of this off.
1:54.1	Let us hit the Tudor Road.
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