Rebecca Rideal
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1,038 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Rebecca Rideal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And two of them made a promise that if they were to die, they would come back to the other to prove that there was life after death.
Now, nobody came back to the Earl of Rochester.
And I do think that was fundamental in his questioning of the world, but also his experience during the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
It kind of turned him from a precocious child into potentially a formidable man.
That was the hope anyway.
And that was the immediate reaction to his conduct, I think, and why he was able to win Elizabeth in the end.
Oh my gosh, I know.
Well, she put up with it because there weren't that many choices.
In the Restoration, women could have affairs as well.
I mean, women could have affairs any time they like, but the repercussions from having an affair, while severe, were perhaps not as severe as other time periods were.
Yeah, Rochester was, he was able in some ways to compartmentalise his life.
So he had his London life, his court life, and then he had his life in Oxfordshire, in Woodstock with his family, because they did have children.
So his letters to her are quite sweet, are quite warm.
Some of them are quite functional as well, like you need to get this, that and the other.
I'm sending this for the house.
I think it was a relationship that obviously had a wonderful honeymoon period.
But then as Rochester's debauching and alcoholism increased, there certainly were frictions in that marriage and frustrations in that marriage as a consequence of that.
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So he's made a gentleman of the bedchamber, which is a revolving position.
You have that position once a month.
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