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Tudors Dynasty & Beyond

Women Behaving Badly: Tudor Style

Tudors Dynasty & Beyond

RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson

History

4.4869 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Off the Record!

Today, Amy and I dive into women “behaving badly”…or at least, that’s how history chose to remember them. And yes—we’re fully aware that women were judged by a very different standard than men.

From alleged husband-murdering, to sharp-tongued insults, to a mother refusing her son the money he demanded, and even a woman boldly owning an affair (and naming her son after her lover)…we unpack the stories behind the scandal.

Were these women truly outrageous—or simply refusing to play by the rules? Let’s get into it.

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Margaret Wotton article: https://tudorsdynasty.com/margaret-wotton-unnatural-mother/

Book I mentioned: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650.

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Hosts:

Rebecca Larson & Amy McElroy



Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the show. It's Sunday. So that means it's time for off the record on Tudor's Dynasty and Beyond podcast. I'm Rebecca Larson.

0:15.3

And I'm Amy McElroy. And here we are again, ready to have some fun today, aren't we?

0:21.2

We are. You know, aren't we? We are.

0:22.7

You know, last week we did an episode called Men Behaving Badly, and it was fun.

0:29.4

I saw some of the comments.

0:31.6

It was fun.

0:33.7

I think I immediately just want to go right to comments with you to see and to let everybody

0:39.3

else know what everybody was saying. Yes. So this one from Constance says the Edmund Howard

0:48.9

story, you can't stop peeing his bed and his wife is irritated is my new favourite story thank you for making me laugh

0:56.4

that's why we listen because we adore history but we also need to laugh that's right that was a good

1:02.3

story um Stephanie talks about where we'd mentioned about laughing so she says if, if you want to listen to something else, basically,

1:14.9

go and do so.

1:16.0

If you don't like this one,

1:17.3

move on or sit down and shut your mouth.

1:20.0

So I live it.

1:21.6

She couldn't have said it better.

1:24.0

Yeah.

1:24.5

So thank you, Stephanie.

1:26.5

And then we've got comments from Dwayne over on YouTube.

1:33.4

So he says,

1:35.1

oof, I wanted to like Brandon,

1:38.7

essentially likes the idea that Henry the 7th took him in.

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