Rosemary Hill
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490 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Rosemary Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And also
To bring the political into the religion, religious aspects.
Britain is surrounded by very powerful Catholic nations.
There's not much Protestantism left in Europe by this date.
And at the same time, rather perversely, our main Protestant, you would have thought, ally, the Low Countries, we're at war with them.
Yeah.
Sort of trade frenemies.
Yes.
But it's the person who actually decides enough of all this and some stability has to be restored is George Muggs.
And the next monarch is not far dis to to search for, um, and Charles II after all had been in England, had then retreated again to the Low Countries, and when he arrived, of course the the sort of ten sixty six and all that view of the merry monarch, but there is something to that that after all this austerity
and dictatorship.
Charles was tall, unlike his father, um and good looking and cheerful and young, and he made I mean there is an argument for saying that Charles is a rival, and interestingly when he did
Take the throne again.
He was very much a London based monarch.
He didn't I mean he didn't bother with Windsor much, unlike um his predecessors, and indeed Windsor sort of falls away as a centre of court life until George III really.
So he's based in London and the restoration does for the West End.
Um it is as epic an event as the fire will be for the for the East End.
And yes, and we'll see in a bit more detail with the um the theatres and things, but also
Tolls' predisposition to be in London.
Instigates that famous ritual of the London season.
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