Consistently Eccentric History

The Spanish Armada - Let's settle our religious differences... with full scale Naval warfare!


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This week we discuss what happens when former siblings-in-law have a disagreement, and access to hundreds of warships. Following the death of Queen Mary, her former husband, King Philip of Spain, was determined to continue the enforcing of Catholicism in England by moving on to Mary's half-sister (and new Queen) Elizabeth.


When she rebuffed his advances, he did not take it well. Leading to a decades long spat that eventually escalated to Philip deciding that his only option was to plan an all out invasion of England. The resulting marine mobilisation has become known to history as The Spanish Armada, a sea based army that surely could not fail...


Right?


Guest Host: Evie Heathcote

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