Alice Loxton

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770 appearances 11 recordings 7 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3 Sep

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You're Dead to Me · Why do British people love tea? (from Here For The History) · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

And unfortunately, much to her disappointment, they don't have one to give her.

So though tea had actually already arrived in the UK by this point in the 1650s, and we know this because of the famous diarist Samuel Pepys, it wasn't actually popular yet.

So the princess on arrival was offered, you're right, Ben, a small ale instead.

She'd love an airport spoons, I'm sure.

Now, a week later, Charles II comes down to Portsmouth.

And on this day, he meets Catherine of Braganza for the first time and they get married.

Well, it's quite low key, I suppose you might say, but they do go to London later on and they process into London.

And, you know, that's a great celebration.

Of course, Charles is quite an extravagant man.

He's got a lot of mistresses and he is known as the king of partying.

So they are quite a kind of strange couple in some ways, this mousy girl from Portugal.

But nonetheless, the key thing is that Catherine of Braganza, she is the new wife of Charles II and she joins the English court.

And in one sense, she's this great outsider because she's remained a Catholic while the English court's religion is Protestantism.

And she dresses in the Portuguese style.

She has some quite funny habits, which do actually catch on.

She brings the fork in, which is, you know, a useful implement.

She introduced marmalade.

Again, very grateful for that.

But most importantly, she popularizes tea.

Yeah, thank you.

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