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Speaker 1: Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio

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Speaker 1: and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Minky. Listener discretion is advised.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever been a child out a sleepover party,

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Speaker 1: chances are you've played a game called Bloody Mary. This

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Speaker 1: is how it works. You, the tiny sleepover attendee, go

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Speaker 1: into a bathroom and turn the light off. You're holding

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Speaker 1: a candle or maybe a flashlight. You closed the door

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Speaker 1: behind you so that you're alone in the dark. It's

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Speaker 1: at this point that the only sounds you can hear

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Speaker 1: are your friend's muffled giggles from the other side of

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Speaker 1: the door and your own breathing. You're supposed to look

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Speaker 1: into the mirror, holding the candle aloft and repeat the

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Speaker 1: name Bloody Mary ten times if you dare. Most often

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Speaker 1: you get to about six or seven and bail on

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Speaker 1: the experiment, shriek and explode from the bathroom and claim

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Speaker 1: that you saw something that you were so freaked out.

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Speaker 1: Then you and your friends all laugh and drink some

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Speaker 1: more diet coke and go watch Adam's Family Values on VHS.

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Speaker 1: Kids at slumber parties, at least in my experience, were

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Speaker 1: too frightened to get up to saying the name Bloody

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Speaker 1: Mary ten times. According to the myth, if you were

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Speaker 1: holding a candle and looking in a mirror in a

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Speaker 1: you would see her face reflected in the mirror behind

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Speaker 1: your own. Who is Bloody Mary the specter of slumber parties?

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Speaker 1: It's hard to find an exact answer. As with so

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Speaker 1: much mythology and lore, rumors and speculations find themselves together

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Speaker 1: until they're impossible to unravel from fact. Some say that

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Speaker 1: Bloody Mary is actually a witch who was hanged at Salem,

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Speaker 1: although evidence for that is fairly non specific. But historically

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Speaker 1: the nickname Bloody Mary was ascribed to an actual woman,

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Speaker 1: Queen Mary the First of England. Mary Tudor, the oldest

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Speaker 1: daughter of King Henry the eighth, eventually became a queen.

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Speaker 1: She was a devout Catholic who burned Protestant heretics at

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Speaker 1: the stake, an act which eventually led to her bloody

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Speaker 1: nickname Mary. It became a hated figure, decried as one

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Speaker 1: of the worst monarchs in history, a woman tyrannical, monstrous.

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Speaker 1: If you believe the rumors, the cocktail Bloody Mary was

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Speaker 1: named for her as well, the tomato juice for the

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Speaker 1: blood of Protestant martyrs, and vodka to symbolize the flames

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Speaker 1: of the pyre. God knows what the clam juice was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be, maybe the way she expanded the navy,

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Speaker 1: but hated as Bloody Mary is in theory today. Before

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Speaker 1: and a swell of popular support. She was a beloved figure,

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Speaker 1: heroin come home to save the kingdom from usurpers. So

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Speaker 1: how did the first female monarch of England in her

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Speaker 1: own right go from becoming a populist hero to a

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Speaker 1: monster out of a myth? The answer is, unsurprisingly complicated.

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Speaker 1: History is written by the victors, and victors in the

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Speaker 1: case of England's religious disputes were the Protestants. For Mary.

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Speaker 1: The combination of an unpopular marriage, military losses, and the

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Speaker 1: failure to produce an heir became a perfect storm, ensuring

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Speaker 1: historians loves a bloody villain. I'm Danish sports and this

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Speaker 1: is noble blood. Over the course of six wives, Henry

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Speaker 1: the eighth had three children, but even so the Tutor

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Speaker 1: Aragon and Anne Boleyn, respectively, and they were both retroactively delegitimized.

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Speaker 1: But Henry's options for heirs were running short, and so

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Speaker 1: After Henry turned against them, Mary swallowing her pride and

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Speaker 1: King Henry the Eighth died at age fifty five in

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Speaker 1: King Edward the sixth Because he was still a minor,

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Speaker 1: be a vast, vast oversimplification of a very complicated issue,

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Speaker 1: the goings on of Greater Europe. England was still by

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Speaker 1: year old Edward publicly reprimanded her in person for her disrespect.

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Speaker 1: his succession plans. Edward, or rather his advisers, didn't want

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Speaker 1: that the crown go next to Edward's other half sister Elizabeth,

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Speaker 1: instead Mary fled from her property to East Anglia Norwich

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth would overshadow Mary even in the grave. Noble Blood

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