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Podcast: British History: Royals, Rebels, and Romantics
Episode: Top Ten Tudor Scandals...After the Henrys (episode 23)
Description: The Tudor dynasty changed England, Europe, and the world. And the scandals changed the dynasty!This week we’ll be looking at the top 10 scandals that plagued those who ruled England in the second half of the reign: a boy and two women. That reality was what the Tudors were so desperate to avoid: a child king had been at the heart of the troubles of the Wars of the Roses. Both Richard II and Henry VI had taken the throne as children, and both reigns had ended in disaster. Edward wasn’t old enough to ru...