Matt Ford

From Audible Originals, I'm Matt Ford.

And this is British Scandal, the show where we bring you the murkiest stories that's ever happened on these odd little isles.

But when we look at scandals a bit closer, they turn out to be stranger, wilder, just plain weirder than we remember.

And when the dust settled, did anything really change?

Alice, this series I'm bringing you a very special sort of rivalry.

A female rivalry.

Yes.

That would be brilliant.

And that arguably is the biggest in British history.

But this, dare I say it, is arguably more important than All Saints.

We're going back a long way.

This is two royal cousins that are both queens in the same country.

So this is the great British scandal of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I. Yes, this is juicy.

I mean, in a way, it is the posh versus ginger of the 1500s.

Could have been their nicknames.

The two ambitious women, both after the crown.

There's a menage a trois.

We've got murders, explosions, love, family betrayal, and more importantly, and just for you, Alice, slutty men and massive penises.

This scandal is the one that tore the entire country apart and almost brought down the English crown.

This is episode one.