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Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit,

the podcasts in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs,

from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise,

relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.

Not in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.

Imagine a world turned upside down.

King Charles I, who believed himself to be God's anointed representative

on earth ruling by divine right, was marched to the scaffold in January 1649, and publicly executed

in front of a gasping crowd in the freezing London winter.

For one breathtaking moment, the unthinkable had happened.

The monarchy, that ancient pillar of order stretching back through the mists of medieval time,

had been toppled.

Suddenly a nation that had known nothing but kings for a thousand years found itself without one. The divine right to rule was rejected, the crown was gone,

and in its place arose something radical, something almost unimaginable, a commonwealth, a republic,

a kingdom without a king. For 11 extraordinary years,

England experimented with a new vision of power, reimagining what governance could be

in a world liberated from monarchy. Yet this revolutionary moment, this tantalizing glimpse of

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