In the personal politics of early modern England, the personalities and desires of the powerful were the stuff of policy. In this episode we examine the actions of: Queen Anne, the closet-Catholic; Prince Henry Frederick, the dashing future king of three realms; Elizabeth, the gracious future Queen of Bohemia; and Charles, the bookish, slightly sickly, future Archbishop of Canterbury. That is, unless Fate intervened...
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In this episode I made particular use of the following publications:
- Alan Stewart, The Cradle King: A Life of James VI and I
- Pauline Croft, King James
- The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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