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A tormented Tudor queen's treasonous 'love letter'
A tormented Tudor queen's treasonous 'love letter'
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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Aug 1, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
In this episode, Neil Johnston and Christopher Day discuss a letter written by Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, to Thomas Culpeper, a groom of the King's Privy chamber. The document was part of a body of evidence collected against Catherine and Culpeper that ultimately led to their execution. It is now preserved at The National Archives.Here Neil Johnston explains how it is crucial to examine this letter in the context of Catherine's sexual past in order to understand how the queen accused of living "an abominable, base, carnal, voluptuous, vicious life" was effectively blackmailed into a path of action that led to her untimely death.
Released:
Aug 1, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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