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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: One quick note before we begin, and I'm sure you

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Speaker 1: are absolutely tired of hearing me say it, but I

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Speaker 1: wrote a book. It's a novel called Anatomy, a love story,

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Speaker 1: and if you love spooky stories about people in history,

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Speaker 1: I really think you're gonna love it. It takes place

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Speaker 1: in nineteen century Edinburgh and it's everything I love, like

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Speaker 1: the reason I made Noble Blood in novel form. So

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Speaker 1: if you haven't pre ordered, please please do me a

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Speaker 1: favor and check it out wherever you buy books, your

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Speaker 1: local indie bookstore. It would mean so much. And now

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Speaker 1: the episode for the woman we know today as Queen

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth the first. Growing up, Elizabeth's royal status was far

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Speaker 1: from secure. Her mother Anne Boleyn, had climbed from Lady

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Speaker 1: and lose her head in one of the quickest and

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Speaker 1: most dramatic downfalls in royal history. Little Elizabeth was only

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Speaker 1: three at the time, and it's not quite certain how

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Speaker 1: aware she was when it came to the matter of

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Speaker 1: loss of status. Perhaps apocryphale, she is said to have

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Speaker 1: asked one of her father's courtiers, why was I lady

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Speaker 1: Princess yesterday and Lady Elizabeth today? The former princess became

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Speaker 1: after the death of her mother, Like her older sister, Mary, delegitimized,

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Speaker 1: and so Elizabeth grew up all too aware that her

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Speaker 1: status was precarious. Growing up, Elizabeth's households were small and meager.

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Speaker 1: Her governess often needed to beg the king that he

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth was still a child approaching ten when her father,

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Speaker 1: King Henry the Eighth, beheaded his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth had liked Catherine Howard. She had treated her with kindness,

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Speaker 1: but the beautiful teenage queen had flirted or maybe done

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Speaker 1: more with men who weren't the king, and so Catherine

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Speaker 1: Howard was imprisoned in the tower, forced weeping to lower

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Speaker 1: hiss of an axe man's blade. Some say that it

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Speaker 1: was at that moment, when Catherine Howard was beheaded, that

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth decided that she herself would never marry, She would

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Speaker 1: own fate was already decided by her father's capricious winds.

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Speaker 1: Why invite that sense of unhappy submission into her life again?

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Speaker 1: Volunteer early. By the end of Henry the Eighth's life,

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Speaker 1: and Elizabeth. Though he didn't formally re legitimize them, he

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Speaker 1: Henry's death, The youngest sickly Edward, would be king, son

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Speaker 1: of Henry and his third wife, Jane Seymour. If Edward

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Speaker 1: If Mary didn't have any children, only then would Elizabeth

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Speaker 1: growing up, combined with the sheer unlikeliness that she would

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Speaker 1: She didn't trust anyone unless she had to, and even

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Speaker 1: then she never left her back unguarded. Her loyalty is

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Speaker 1: born to an entirely different sort of childhood. This cousin

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Speaker 1: was Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, whose father died only

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Speaker 1: the Tutor era, but for this story, the Mary that

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Speaker 1: side effect of misogyny to frame any disagreement between women

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Speaker 1: Family is important, but not as important as power. I'm

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Speaker 1: Danish schwartz and this is noble blood. Mary Stewart and

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Speaker 1: of possibly one of the more embarrassing ways that a

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Speaker 1: she hadn't lived since she was five years old. The

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Speaker 1: She had left Scotland as Mary Stewart s t e

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Speaker 1: waiting patiently to be formally named as Elizabeth's heir. The

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Speaker 1: Mary was a constant and lingering threat. That political threat

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Speaker 1: In fact, Mary realized pretty quickly that she had saddled

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Speaker 1: Mary named James. Mary made Elizabeth the first the cousin

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Speaker 1: she had still never met her son's godmother. The child's father.

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Speaker 1: Darnley wouldn't be in the picture long. Mary's first husband

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Speaker 1: he was found innocent, but no one really took any

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