A prequel to Gerald Fitzgerald, this episode takes a look at why the English were in Ireland in the first place and why they hung on to it despite the lack of any discernible benefits.

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Finding out about Mandukhai was so exciting that I nearly did a little dance around the room!

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This is where it all began.  Without Henry's victory at Bosworth there would have been no Tudors and, even more alarming, no Tudoriferous.

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Catherine of Aragon's controlling and narcissistic confessor.  Between him and Dona Elvira the poor girl didn't stand a chance.

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Torn Between Two Fathers | Tudoriferous

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Created by Henry VII as his bodyguard, who were they, what did they do and what did they wear while they did it?

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'The black trumpet'.  Very good at his 'blowings and pipings'.

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The French lawyer and his most notorious case.

Wales was central both to the Wars of the Roses and to Henry's usurpation/justified taking of the throne.  We revisit some old friends - Jasper Tudor, Catherine de Valois with her dodgy coffin and Mr. Tiptoft.

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I'll make him an offer he can't refuse, bach.

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We answer questions sent in by our Patreon members.  So if you want to know definitively - Arthur and Catherine, did they or didn't they? - listen in.

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