Philippa Gregory
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357 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 25 May
Philippa Gregory’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He never makes any claim to being a Tudor.
which is smart of him because Elizabeth has this unfortunate tendency to throw her eyes into the tower or execute them.
Yes, she was.
And he never says a word until the instructions in his will and his tomb, which you can see in Westminster Abbey today, is the tomb of a royal bastard.
Yes, apparently.
You have to be much, much better informed about heraldry than I am.
But I was told that by one of the custodians at Westminster Abbey who pointed out the heraldry on the tomb, which is as close as he wanted to go to telling Elizabeth that he was her half-brother, which was wait till he was safely dead and then make the claim.
It endured.
I mean, what's extraordinary is if you count dissent down the maternal line, which, of course, as a feminist, I think you should always have your eyes open.
It's the only one you can be sure of.
Exactly.
But yes, so through Catherine Mary Boleyn, you get Catherine Carey.
Her daughter is then Leticia, who marries Nollis and becomes Dudley's wife.
ultimately as well.
So, I mean, they really are woven through.
What's really rather horribly lovely is that Letitia is, if you see a portrait of her, she's redheaded.
She's creamy skinned.
She's green eyed.
She's very, very beautiful.
She looks very, very much like a young Elizabeth I. And she comes to Elizabeth I court just as Elizabeth is not looking like a young Elizabeth I. She's looking like an older Elizabeth I. And Elizabeth hates her.
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