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Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome to not just the Tudors from History Hit, the podcast 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.

Before she was the glittering Virgin Queen who ruled over England's golden age,

Elizabeth Tudor was a girl in peril. Born to Ambellin and Henry

8th, Elizabeth entered the world a royal princess. But before she turned three, her mother would be

executed, her title stripped, and her future cast into doubt. Declared illegitimate, pushed to the fringes of power,

surrounded by stepmothers who vanished as quickly as they arrived,

and then a father who left her orphaned.

And, in the shadows of royal ambition, danger waited.

From the predatory advances of Thomas Seymour

to her imprisonment in the Tower of London,

under suspicion of treason, Elizabeth's path to the throne was not one of destiny, but survival.

Every word she wrote, every move she made could mean life or death.

Dr. Nicola Talus is the author of Young Elizabeth,

the making of the Virgin Queen,

and the presenter of a new two-part film,

Young Elizabeth in her own words on History Hit.

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