Dr. Maddy Pelling
speaker
671 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5 May
Dr. Maddy Pelling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She's married.
In others, she falls in love with a soldier who leaves her.
In other versions, it's a bricklayer from Devon.
We don't know.
We don't know.
Mary is making this up left, right and centre.
We do find her, though, in... So by this point, it's like... Because obviously we've gone back in time before she becomes a princess.
So this is sort of, I think, 1815 at this point.
We do find her at the Foundling Hospital, which, for listeners who don't know, was a charity at the time.
that took in children whose parents couldn't look after them for whatever reason and would try and rehome them into apprenticeships, train them up in skills that would be useful in service and that kind of thing.
And it was a sort of lottery system of getting in there.
And we know that she has a son called John.
Yes.
So he's born a few days before she enters a workhouse.
She spends a few days in the workhouse postpartum to sort of recover.
I mean, if that's your only option, postpartum is not great.
And we find her applying to the Foundling Hospital to take her son because she simply can't look after him.
She's very mentally unwell at this point.
She has no employment.
She's living on the street.
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