Tom Holland

So it's like being at a festival, I guess.

Yeah, it's kind of Glastonbury, isn't it?

Or the Rest is History Festival at Hampton Court this summer.

I don't think that the people who will be coming to our wonderful festival will be urinating and bringing the mummies of their ancestors.

I mean, I may be surprised.

Who knows?

Yeah.

But I don't think so.

I put nothing past the members of the Rest is History Club, quite frankly.

So the climax of this event, it's the Spanish who take charge.

Vicente de Valverde reads mass, and then they parade into the square where Manco is sitting on a stool surrounded by his nobles.

And then Pizarro's secretary, Pedro Sancho, reads out for all to hear the requirement, which we've discussed earlier.

It's this mad legal thing that the Spanish have to read

the history of the world, the story of Christ, the history of the papacy, and it's like a brilliant Restless History series, and the Spanish monarchy, and then the legal obligation of the Incas to accept the Pope, the Church, and the King of Spain.

And then it ends with this warning, which always amuses me,

If they don't do this, the Spanish are legally obliged to do you, quote, all the harm and damage that we can, and any deaths and losses which shall result from this are your fault.

So it's like those little disclaimers that we read at the end of our Restless History adverts.

May contain.

Side effects may include.

So at the end, Manco and Pizarro share a kind of golden cup.