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103. George Villiers - 1st Duke of Buckingham · Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood

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Speaker 1: You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hello delicious friends,
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Speaker 1: and welcome to Hooded. What now the history podcast that's
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Speaker 1: not your history class with me your host Katie Charlewood,
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Speaker 1: history harlote and reader of books, And oh my dearest Dvian's.
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Speaker 1: I hope you had a wonderful Easter passover trans Day
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Speaker 1: of Visibility yay, et cetera, et cetera. I feel like
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Speaker 1: But I hope you had a great time. I went
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Speaker 1: out for lunch and I actually had really nice chicken wings,
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Speaker 1: time I've had actual hot sauce and donegal like served
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Speaker 1: somewhere like it's never been this good. It was so good,
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Speaker 1: like genuinely delicious. And but now I've had my fun
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Speaker 1: and that's my out. Time is done for most of
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Speaker 1: the month because now I get to get to brass tacks,
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Speaker 1: I get a bit my nose to the groundstone and
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Speaker 1: other such metaphors because I've got the tour at the
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Speaker 1: end of the month. It starts the history of Hardlet tour.
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Speaker 1: So I'm in, like Dublin Brighton Manchester, then Glasgow and
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Speaker 1: each of these shows have a different topic. So the
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Speaker 1: super cute outfits for every show. But yeah, the three
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Speaker 1: gay that are in the UK, each one of them
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Speaker 1: has a different topic and I'm doing them night after night,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like, why do I do this to myself?
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Speaker 1: Like it's not so bad when you have the same
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Speaker 1: set and you're doing it like night after night, you know,
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Speaker 1: But when you're doing a different thing every evening four
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Speaker 1: evenings in a row, and traveling and not really seeing
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Speaker 1: any of the places you're traveling in. But it's fine
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Speaker 1: because I really pinched my time with this one. I
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Speaker 1: was like, I'm going to be as productive as possible.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to do as many different shows and as
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Speaker 1: short a time frame as I physically can because I'm
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Speaker 1: going to win it touring, which is something which is
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Speaker 1: do that. That will be wonderful. Tell your friends, tell
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Speaker 1: your enemies, because you know, if this tour goes well,
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Speaker 1: then it makes another tour more viable. It gives me
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Speaker 1: more options to actually come out and go to like
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Speaker 1: smaller areas and go out to where you are, maybe
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Speaker 1: not exactly like not your house, Like I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to be shouting in weird facts about lesbians through your
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Speaker 1: bedroom window. I feel like that's verging on inappropriate. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, God your jibber
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Speaker 1: jabber in fact me, in fact you, I will. But
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Speaker 1: first we've got to get our source on. Our sources
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Speaker 1: are The King's Assassin, The Fatal Affair of George Williers
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Speaker 1: and James the First by Benjamin Woolley. The Golden Edge
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Speaker 1: Restored the Culture of the Stuart Court by Graham Parry,
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Speaker 1: The Popular Murderer by Jessica Man, Rumor and Common Fame,
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Speaker 1: The impagement of the Jig of Buckingham and public opinion
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Speaker 1: in early Stuart, England by David Coast. Charles the second,
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Speaker 1: The Duke of Buckingham by Charles C. Hanrahan, George Hilliers,
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Speaker 1: Duke of Buckingham by Samuel Rosson Gardner, King James and
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Speaker 1: Letters of homo Erotic Desire by David M. Bergern, History
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Speaker 1: dot com, Biography dot com, and of course The Three
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Speaker 1: Musketeers by Alexandra Duma. I'll sitting comfortably good. Then let's begin. Now,
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Speaker 1: before we get started, I have to talk about pronunciation.
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Speaker 1: Now it's going to come and bite me in the
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Speaker 1: delier because I really want to go Villiers because it's
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Speaker 1: French name Villiers, but it's Villiers. I've been told it's Villiers.
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Speaker 1: That's the British pronunciation, and that's what I'm supposed to follow.
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Speaker 1: But it feels weird coming out of my mouth. So
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna apologize for that from the get go. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: this is this is an interesting fellow whose life was
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Speaker 1: sort of chartered by his mother. I'm not saying he's
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Speaker 1: a mummies boy, but I'm just saying that, like, clearly
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Speaker 1: she had a favorite. George Williams was born on the
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Speaker 1: twenty eighth of August fifteen ninety two in Brooksby Leicester,
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Speaker 1: that's in England. We're in England for like most of
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Speaker 1: the story. He was born to Sir George Williams. That's right,
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Speaker 1: he's a junior and Mary Beaumont. Now Mary is George
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Speaker 1: Senior's second wife. So George senior, he was a minor gentleman,
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Speaker 1: started off as a sheep farmer who would did you know?
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Speaker 1: Pretty well from himself, who becomes the High Sheriff of
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Speaker 1: Leicester and then gets knighted, so he has a knighthood
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Speaker 1: for like a week period of time. He's the Knight
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Speaker 1: of the Shire until his death, because knighthoods don't last
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Speaker 1: any longer than that technically, because you're only a knight
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Speaker 1: as long as you're alive. So there's really no reason
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Speaker 1: to like remove someone's knighthood once they're dead, because it
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Speaker 1: technically doesn't exist anymore. It's not a thing. But that's
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Speaker 1: just the rule of it, you know. So, Yeah, George
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Speaker 1: his first wife, Audrey, she passed away in fifteen eighty seven,
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Speaker 1: and then three years later he marries his beautiful but
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Speaker 1: penniless cousin, Mary Beaumont. Now, from his first marriage, he
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Speaker 1: had I think five kids, yeah, so he had three
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Speaker 1: boys and two girls. He then marries Mary and they
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Speaker 1: have three sons and a daughter. Now George Junior, he
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Speaker 1: is son number two. I know we talked about this
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Speaker 1: before in the Dick Whittington episode Inheritance. You know, the
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Speaker 1: oldest son, the eldest son, he gets the titles, he
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Speaker 1: gets the land, and then a little bit is spread
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Speaker 1: out amongst the rest. So by the time you get
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Speaker 1: to George Junior, who's like the fifth son out of sex,
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Speaker 1: he's not going to be gaining anything. He's not gonna
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Speaker 1: get like the lands and the titles. It's not gonna
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Speaker 1: be great for him. He's gonna have to like make
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Speaker 1: his own way. And the thing is as well. When
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Speaker 1: Mary enters this marriage, she's basically destitute. She's penniless, she's
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Speaker 1: got no money. But somehow she finds a way to
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Speaker 1: send George to France. She's like, you need to be
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Speaker 1: a courtier. You have something about you, there's something special
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Speaker 1: about you. We need to get you just bougied up.
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Speaker 1: So she sends him to France with John Elliott. Now
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Speaker 1: John Elliott was consistently getting arrested as he got older
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Speaker 1: because he was very like pro parliament as opposed to
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Speaker 1: being pro king. And yet got him in trouble quite
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Speaker 1: a bit. But out of these two, George was gonna
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Speaker 1: make the bigger splash. So he goes to France to do.
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Speaker 1: Them go to France and they learn the ways of
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Speaker 1: the court, much like Anne Boleyn. You know, they learn dancing,
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Speaker 1: like it's very important that you know how to dance,
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Speaker 1: like in the Stuart court. So he learns dancing and
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Speaker 1: fencing and some languages. He gets pretty decent at the
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Speaker 1: old French, as one does when you live in France.
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Speaker 1: He very quickly adopts to courtly behavior and an absolutely
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Speaker 1: smashing sense of fashion, like this fella is just fabulous,
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Speaker 1: like he knows how to dress well and people know it,
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Speaker 1: like everybody knows it. And on top of this as well,
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Speaker 1: he has this like charisma in charm like he is
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Speaker 1: he is the man's man, ladies man, man about town
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Speaker 1: and he wasn't the only one to notice. So in
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Speaker 1: a name that sounds completely made up, Godfrey Goodman, that's right,
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Speaker 1: the Bishop of Gloucester. He sounds like like a superhero
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Speaker 1: character just steps out the pages of Marvel, like now,
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Speaker 1: Godfrey Goodman. Is there more appropriate name for a bishop
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Speaker 1: that like Godfrey goodman, like really anyway, he and a
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Speaker 1: quote states that Georgevilliers was the handsomest bodied man in
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Speaker 1: all of England. His limbs so well compacted, his conversation
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Speaker 1: so pleasing, and his general disposition was so sweet. You
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Speaker 1: know what, Actually that is a pretty elaborate compliment from
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Speaker 1: a bishop. It's like Roger Rabbit right in a love
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Speaker 1: letter to Jessica one one thousand, two, one thousand. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's it's pretty noticeable that he is fine, like he's
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Speaker 1: he's clearly pretty easy on the eye. At some point
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Speaker 1: during this his dad passes away. I'm sixteen oh six
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Speaker 1: and he's like fourteen ish thirteen fourteen, and so this
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Speaker 1: is when his mum like really pushes him into this
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Speaker 1: sort of courtely you know training and this pandas when
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Speaker 1: he's twenty one he becomes involved in basically an anti's
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Speaker 1: Scottish conspiracy. It's the mildest way I can put it, really.
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Speaker 1: So when James the First is crowned James the First
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Speaker 1: because he was James the Sex of Scotland, because he
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Speaker 1: was named Elizabeth I's you know, heir, which you know,
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Speaker 1: could have been Mary, Queen of Scott's if she hadn't
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Speaker 1: been a dick. But the apple doesn't fall far from
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Speaker 1: the tree with this one, because James worse, actually worse,
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Speaker 1: like he is a phill blown like combination of his
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Speaker 1: mother and father combined. And that's not a good recipe
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Speaker 1: for anything, right. That will be a bad taste in
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Speaker 1: your mouth, which George will soon find out. So when
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Speaker 1: James the First, I will do an episode on at
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Speaker 1: one point becomes King of the United Kingdom of England
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Speaker 1: and Scotland. Right when he becomes king, he brings with
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Speaker 1: him like a lot of Scottish court like a lot
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Speaker 1: of the courtiers are Scottish. So it is sixteen fourteen
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Speaker 1: and there's this hunt going on in Aphtharp and George
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Speaker 1: Williels is there and he catches the King's eye because
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Speaker 1: of course he does, because he's a twenty one year old, strapping,
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Speaker 1: beautiful young man. And people noticed, especially a bunch of
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Speaker 1: English courtails who really wanted to like balance the scales
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Speaker 1: a wee bit or you know, tip them in their favor.
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Speaker 1: So they saw him, and they saw that he was noticed,
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Speaker 1: and they thought this is the perfect point where they
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Speaker 1: can muse him. They wanted to, like maneuver him into
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Speaker 1: position to become the King's favorite. Now, the favorite is
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Speaker 1: actually a position which is a political role. You know.
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Speaker 1: It's the king's or queen's most intimate companion. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: the current favorite Robert Carr, the Earl of Somerset. People
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Speaker 1: weren't too happy with him in general. They were not
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Speaker 1: keen on the fela and they wanted to, you know,
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Speaker 1: push him out. So being King James's favorite wasn't just
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Speaker 1: a political position in this situation. It was also an
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Speaker 1: actual position because James, although he was married and had
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Speaker 1: his lineage and what not, his ales, ah, he wasn't
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Speaker 1: too fond of the feral sex to be honest. You know,
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Speaker 1: this is the king who you know, accused women of
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Speaker 1: being witches, wrote a book on demonology, and was generating
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Speaker 1: all around shit to women. Anyway, he liked to sleep
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Speaker 1: with men, especially his favorite, which really puts the favorite
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Speaker 1: in the perfect position to whisper in the King's ear,
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Speaker 1: shall we say. And so this is kind of a
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Speaker 1: coveted position, and the other courtiers were like, we need
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Speaker 1: to get in here now. Things weren't going well for
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Speaker 1: the Earl of Somerset. He ends up having a falling
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Speaker 1: out with the King because he's having an affair with
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Speaker 1: the married fans Howard, Clearly, King James's pride is you know,
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Speaker 1: bruised at this situation, and Robert Carr is out and well.
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Speaker 1: News of this scandal made its way up to James's ears.
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Speaker 1: Young George Villiers had been put in front of the
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Speaker 1: King in several situations, like the courtiers are like lobbying
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Speaker 1: to get him into this cup bearer's position. So being
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Speaker 1: the cup baiter basically meant that you would not only
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Speaker 1: just like fill his cup, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: pouring his wine, but you would also keep the king company,
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Speaker 1: amuse him during dinners events whatnot you like. So these
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Speaker 1: duds go full on pretty women with Villiers. They raise
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Speaker 1: money to get him an entirely new wardrobe to make
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Speaker 1: sure he is looking fabulous all the time, and they
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Speaker 1: keep bringing him out in masks to dance in front
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Speaker 1: of the King because he is such a graceful, beautiful dancer,
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Speaker 1: and they want to keep putting him out there and
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Speaker 1: just hunting him in every chance they get. And it
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Speaker 1: fucking works, and Villiers he is rising through the ranks. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: Robert Carr ends up in a massive murderer scandal. And
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Speaker 1: what is the favor he does have with the king
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Speaker 1: and basically seals his own fate with regards to that,
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Speaker 1: And that is a whole other story. And I have
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Speaker 1: to tell you about Francis Howard sometime. She is such
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Speaker 1: an interesting woman. But yeah, Villiers is moving up nobility.
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Speaker 1: When he's twenty two, he is knighted Gentlemen of the Bedchamber.
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Speaker 1: The year after he becomes king Masters of the Horse,
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Speaker 1: and he gets moved up in sort of the peerage.
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Speaker 1: He becomes Viscount Villiers. He's a Knight of the Garter,
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Speaker 1: and then he becomes an earl, and then he becomes
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Speaker 1: a Marquess of Buckingham, and finally in sixteen twenty three,
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Speaker 1: when he is what twenty nine twenty eight, he is
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Speaker 1: named the Duke of Buckingham. Now, the thing about dukedom
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Speaker 1: is it's supposed to be limited to relatives of the
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Speaker 1: royal family, the nobility, like the high nobility. It's supposed
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Speaker 1: to indicate a connection and a closeness there. Now, George
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Speaker 1: Villiers is often referred to as the first Duke of Buckingham,
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Speaker 1: and that's kind of true, but kind of not so.
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Speaker 1: Back in the fourteen hundreds there was a Duke of
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Speaker 1: Buckingham and this lasted for a good will and then
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Speaker 1: the title ends up being dissolved. And it's only when
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Speaker 1: John Villiers gets moved up into the nobility, up the
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Speaker 1: peerage that the King bestows this upon him, thus making
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Speaker 1: him the new sort of first Duke of Buckingham. It's
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Speaker 1: kind of like a reboot, you know, they've just rebooted
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Speaker 1: the title. But that's not the only name that King
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Speaker 1: James gives him. He calls him Steeney, right, and it's
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Speaker 1: supposed to be like a sort of nickname based on
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Speaker 1: Saint Stephen, who, according to you know, hagiographies and whatnot,
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Speaker 1: had the face of an angel. He's basically calling him
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Speaker 1: like super gorgeous, So yeah, face of an angel and
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Speaker 1: a title that had been defunct for a whole century.
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Speaker 1: Like this is actually a really really big deal because
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Speaker 1: this was the first time, like this appointment was the
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Speaker 1: first time in literally like one hundred years that the
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Speaker 1: king had elevated sort of one of the common people
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Speaker 1: to dukedom. Like nobility and class in pairs. They're so
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Speaker 1: they're so weird, Like the British class system is very peculiar,
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Speaker 1: Like will Years is like one of the youngest sons
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Speaker 1: of a minor noble like, it's not it's not really
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Speaker 1: that big of a deal. So he's like mainly noble
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Speaker 1: like compared to royalty. That's that's common. And so he
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Speaker 1: gets moved up the ranks and this is unusual, unusual,
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Speaker 1: but it's it was very more than unusual. Actually, it
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Speaker 1: was absolutely shocking for a lot of people at the time,
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Speaker 1: and so many people had bandied together to try and
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Speaker 1: push this to happen. They they had just really wanted
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Speaker 1: to get him into this position. They wanted to elevate
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Speaker 1: him to this role. And King James was clearly smitten
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Speaker 1: with his new bow, so much so that when George
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Speaker 1: moved up the ranks, so did his family. He like
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Speaker 1: boosted his brothers and his sister and also his mom.
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Speaker 1: So Mary, she ends up being sort of titled the
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Speaker 1: Countess of Buckingham in like sixteen eighteen, so like three
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Speaker 1: years after himself becomes the cup Bear, like, she gets
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Speaker 1: this title in her own right, and then she goes
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Speaker 1: and marri's more people, which is cool. Good for her.
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Speaker 1: You're a lady in the past, you get a grab
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Speaker 1: what you can get, you know. Villiers starts off in
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Speaker 1: this position, he becomes the King's favorite, put there by
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Speaker 1: a bunch of people who just like really hated Robert Carr,
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Speaker 1: the Earl of Somerset, and they really wanted to just
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Speaker 1: use Valiols as this political poem, which which is funny
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Speaker 1: because because he was so much worse than they ever
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Speaker 1: thought he could be. Like they I'm not saying they
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Speaker 1: created a monster. No, no, I am saying that actually
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Speaker 1: they created a fucking monster. It's actually pretty funny that
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Speaker 1: when Villiels first arrived at court, he already had some
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Speaker 1: connections there because back when he was in school, when
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Speaker 1: he was young, he was Prince Charles's dance tutor. So Charles,
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Speaker 1: that King James's son, he taught him how to dance.
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Speaker 1: Like there was already are we bond there? And now
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Speaker 1: he shagg and his dad. I feel like that's a
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Speaker 1: weird one, you know. And Villiers he's got this like
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Speaker 1: fantastic position. He's got all this money, he's got titles
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Speaker 1: not bad for like the second last son of you know,
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Speaker 1: a dead Night, and but he's still relatively young and
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Speaker 1: he's got a lot to live up to, especially considering
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Speaker 1: the fact that he's not exactly the fust of James's lovers.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you had Robert Carr, you had Esmey Stewart,
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Speaker 1: who converted religion to be with a king, like it
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Speaker 1: was a whole, a whole thing. And if someone's changing
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Speaker 1: the religion for you, which you know at this moment
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Speaker 1: in time, is a big bloody deal. Like your religion
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Speaker 1: was more important than your race, Like race is very
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Speaker 1: much a social construct because in this era, the color
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Speaker 1: of your skin was less important than your religion. Because
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Speaker 1: you were religion was supposed to be the most important
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Speaker 1: like facet of your life. And so George Villiers, he's he's,
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Speaker 1: you know, going uphill a wee bit. I mean it's uphill,
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Speaker 1: but he's going a raarling to hold on to. Because
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Speaker 1: as time goes on, King James becomes like super smitten.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we've already got the cutesywee nickname, right, and
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Speaker 1: he's showering him with gifts and titles and money and
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Speaker 1: all that shit. And he starts calling him he gets worse.
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Speaker 1: So we've already got steeny because he's like super gorgeous.
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Speaker 1: But he also refers to him as entire shit. You
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Speaker 1: not my sweet child and wife. Now I don't care
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Speaker 1: who you are, but if you try and tell me
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Speaker 1: that King James the First and George Villiers, the Duke
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Speaker 1: of Buckingham, we're just best friends, roommates, best buds. You
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Speaker 1: can get to fuck. No, my sweet child and wife,
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Speaker 1: sweet child wife, I regret nothing like no. That is
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Speaker 1: that is an intimate that's an intimate relationship. And it
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Speaker 1: gets weirder because you know the religion thing. So he's
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Speaker 1: talking to like the Privy Council and the advisors the
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Speaker 1: king is and he starts saying that George is like
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Speaker 1: John the Apostle, and King James is Jesus obviously in
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Speaker 1: this analogy, because he centers himself on everything. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is a man who didn't get assassinated and we're
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Speaker 1: still talking about it today, like the propaganda machine. Really amazing.
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Speaker 1: Now you may be thinking to yourself, Queen Anne of Denmark,
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Speaker 1: who's married to King James the First, does she have
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Speaker 1: any opinions on this while considering James as a generally
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Speaker 1: shitty husband. And you know, previously queens have lost their heads.
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Speaker 1: Probably haven't a we think about that. She writes a
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Speaker 1: week letter to Villiers becomes his pal and it's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: stay true to my husband, you know, probably because if
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Speaker 1: he's happy then she has to deal with lest shit.
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Speaker 1: So cool. Oh my goodness, I should have mentioned that
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Speaker 1: in sixteen twenty George Villiers married Lady Catherine Manners, who
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Speaker 1: was the daughter of the Earl of Rutland and the
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Speaker 1: richest woman in England. Now their marriage comes about because
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Speaker 1: his mum is a sneaky bitch. On one hand, King
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Speaker 1: James the first denying this marriage, which is weird because
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Speaker 1: he denies this man nothing, so he is denying him,
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Speaker 1: denying him, and Mary is trying to sort out like
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Speaker 1: the dowry. She wants the dowry from Catherine, and the
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Speaker 1: Earl of Rutford's like, no, absolutely not, this ain't happening.
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Speaker 1: And then a situation occurs where Catherine, who's l or
25:16
Speaker 1: she becomes unwell and she's staying in an abode that
25:21
Speaker 1: George Williols also happens to be in. So this creates
25:26
Speaker 1: like a wee bit of a scandal, and the Earl
25:29
Speaker 1: of Rutford is just like you stayed unschaperoned with a dude. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
25:35
Speaker 1: Like he refuses to have her back, and he demands
25:39
Speaker 1: that they get married, and you know, it would have
25:42
Speaker 1: been scandalous for this not to go ahead, and so
25:46
Speaker 1: this marriage just has to go together, like it's a
25:49
Speaker 1: political alliance. But they're also pretty chill with each other.
25:53
Speaker 1: They seem to be pretty good and they end up
25:55
Speaker 1: having a decent few kids. Now, perhaps apps George Villiers
26:02
Speaker 1: is bisexual. I'm happy to assume that because they had
26:08
Speaker 1: a good number of kids, you know, considering there really
26:11
Speaker 1: isn't a reason after two like once you've got two
26:14
Speaker 1: year done, there's no reason to keep shagging, Meaning I
26:18
Speaker 1: think maybe there was something there. I'm just saying. Anyway,
26:23
Speaker 1: they get married and that's all fine and dandy. They
26:27
Speaker 1: start popping out puppies back to the palace, see George
26:33
Speaker 1: Villiers and Catherine Manners. They actually get married a year
26:38
Speaker 1: ish after Anne of Denmark passes away, and when the
26:43
Speaker 1: queen dies, King James is writing letters to Villiers like
26:49
Speaker 1: be my wife, Come be my wife, which is not
26:52
Speaker 1: something that's going to happen. You know, this is the
26:56
Speaker 1: man who wrote the King James Bible, or commissioned the
27:00
Speaker 1: King James Bible and professed that homosexuality was a sin.
27:04
Speaker 1: And then it's like, marry me, George just saying the
27:09
Speaker 1: numbers don't add up and the points don't matter. And George,
27:13
Speaker 1: clearly the King's favorite. Things are going well for him.
27:18
Speaker 1: He's got a marriage, he's got his place in court,
27:21
Speaker 1: he's got so much fucking money, like so much money.
27:26
Speaker 2: And he he goes a bit mad with it, to
27:29
Speaker 2: be honest, he just gets a bit wild, Like he
27:34
Speaker 2: has such influence over the kingdom and he's in this
27:40
Speaker 2: weird position.
27:41
Speaker 1: He's such a unique position that he's able to take
27:44
Speaker 1: advantage in really weird ways. Like they become wilder and
27:53
Speaker 1: wilder that the public just start turning against him, you know.
28:00
Speaker 1: So he becomes friends with Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon,
28:06
Speaker 1: and they become super close, and Villiers starts like helping
28:10
Speaker 1: Bacon's career advance, and he ends up basically making sure
28:16
Speaker 1: the Bacon gets appointed as the Lord Chancellor. And this is,
28:20
Speaker 1: you know, a super cool fun time between them. But
28:24
Speaker 1: things things start getting a wee bit dodgy. I mean,
28:29
Speaker 1: apart from the fact he's going full on Nepple baby,
28:32
Speaker 1: He's like using his position to get you know, bribes
28:36
Speaker 1: and gifts. He starts taking public funds and using it
28:42
Speaker 1: for his own his own benefit. Really, he tries to
28:47
Speaker 1: create like monopolies all over the shop, especially where it's
28:51
Speaker 1: going to be like super beneficial to him. And he
28:54
Speaker 1: gets Francis Bacon involved in all this because he got
29:01
Speaker 1: Baking the job, because he ensured he got the position.
29:05
Speaker 1: He starts expecting fables, and Williams, the Duke of Buckingham,
29:13
Speaker 1: gets the Lord Chancellor to basically pull these fables on
29:18
Speaker 1: Buckingham's behalf, and so money slides under the table. Here
29:23
Speaker 1: a wee appointment happens there, and it's going well for
29:28
Speaker 1: a wee while until Parliament actually notices that something is
29:33
Speaker 1: a miss and so of course there is a massive
29:37
Speaker 1: scandal and Sir Francis Bacon is just like forced to retire.
29:43
Speaker 1: Meanwhile himself, Buckingham gets off scot free, managing to escape
29:50
Speaker 1: unscathed from his corruption scandal. And he's just like this
29:56
Speaker 1: fucking puppetmaster. At this point, fingers in pies in King
30:02
Speaker 1: James is the King, but the Chuck of Buckingham. People
30:09
Speaker 1: start said eyeing him and calling him the unchallenged ruler
30:15
Speaker 1: of England, and so he is very much trying to
30:18
Speaker 1: protect his possession in Parliament, not really too happy with
30:23
Speaker 1: this whole corruption situation, and they decide they're going to
30:26
Speaker 1: investigate more, and so they start diving into it, and
30:31
Speaker 1: Buckingham he's like, absolutely, you have my support one hundred percent,
30:35
Speaker 1: you know, like in the initial stages, and then, like
30:39
Speaker 1: most criminals, tries to like insert themselves in the investigation
30:45
Speaker 1: and then he just kind of there as a spanner
30:47
Speaker 1: in the works. He doesn't want, you know, the news
30:50
Speaker 1: to get out, and so he causes like a bunch
30:55
Speaker 1: of issues between the lawmakers over foreign and he just
31:01
Speaker 1: sort of sows the seats just to ensure that they
31:05
Speaker 1: that they fight and that they are distracted from what
31:09
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be fucking doing. And so this works
31:12
Speaker 1: and Parliament ends up dissolved because they just can't sort
31:15
Speaker 1: themselves out and it's just gets away with it, falls
31:19
Speaker 1: into shit and comes out smelling of roses. Hey, this dude,
31:25
Speaker 1: he's gonta all his power and he's so fucking vain
31:27
Speaker 1: by the way, Like he is so vain. He is
31:30
Speaker 1: consistently like commissioning paintings for himself how he has the
31:34
Speaker 1: time when he's constantly just like screwing around, like figuratively
31:40
Speaker 1: and sometimes literally, like he's doing all this shit, but
31:44
Speaker 1: he's having time to pose for paintings, like the man.
31:50
Speaker 1: The man clearly liked his own face. I mean, I
31:53
Speaker 1: can't say too much because I have taken so many selfies.
31:57
Speaker 1: But still, though you're sitting for painting, that's that's not
32:02
Speaker 1: exactly a short period of time. I mean, unless he
32:06
Speaker 1: just sat down for like the face and then got
32:09
Speaker 1: someone else to sit for the body maybe, But yeah,
32:12
Speaker 1: the man loved attention. Like he was always putting on
32:16
Speaker 1: like feasts and festivities and parties just so we could
32:20
Speaker 1: go up and dance because you know, it was the
32:23
Speaker 1: done thing you danced at court. And he wanted all
32:27
Speaker 1: eyes upon him, because of course he did. The man
32:31
Speaker 1: bloody loved himself and he thought he could do anything.
32:35
Speaker 1: He thought he was like the Beasnys, the cock of
32:37
Speaker 1: the walk, you know. And he has to go to
32:41
Speaker 1: Spain with Prince Charles for like margin negotiations because King
32:46
Speaker 1: James he wants, you know, Charles to marry a Spanish
32:53
Speaker 1: dignitary in order to secure an allegiance with Spain. So
32:59
Speaker 1: previously we had the whole situation with like the Spanish
33:02
Speaker 1: armada and the constant warring between sort of Elizabeth and Spain,
33:09
Speaker 1: and you know, James really didn't want to have to
33:12
Speaker 1: deal with that, hence marriage negotiations. So Williels is there
33:20
Speaker 1: trying to organize this see bucking At this point he
33:24
Speaker 1: is an admiral lord admiral and not like an official
33:31
Speaker 1: foreign minister, but he basically is like a foreign minister,
33:34
Speaker 1: and so he's there trying to get this agreement hashed
33:38
Speaker 1: out between the Infanta Maria and Charles. Right, that's the
33:43
Speaker 1: whole point. The negotiations they hadn't really been go well anyway.
33:48
Speaker 1: But Buckingham is such a dick, like he insults the
33:55
Speaker 1: Spanish so much that not only did does the like
34:00
Speaker 1: negotiations to come crashing down, like they completely disintegrate. Not
34:04
Speaker 1: only that, but Spain contacts Parliament to execute the Duke
34:13
Speaker 1: of Buckingham over his whole incident, like they want him dead,
34:17
Speaker 1: like that is how much he insulted the Spanish. But
34:21
Speaker 1: Williams he is such he's just such a chancer that
34:28
Speaker 1: when he returns to England he makes this big song
34:31
Speaker 1: and dance about how over in Madrid the Spaniards broke
34:35
Speaker 1: down the negotiations and insulted England and it causes such
34:39
Speaker 1: a ruckus that he gets all this public support for
34:42
Speaker 1: them to go to war with Spain. He like really
34:45
Speaker 1: leans into the patriotism and saves his ours. You know,
34:50
Speaker 1: in the following year, having learned absolutely fucking nothing, they
34:54
Speaker 1: sent him off again to do the negotiations with France. Granted,
34:59
Speaker 1: this does turn out better because Henrietta Maria of France
35:04
Speaker 1: they agree, they agree this marriage is going to go ahead.
35:07
Speaker 1: Charles and Henriette to Maria like good to go fabulous,
35:12
Speaker 1: So this is all agreed upon. It's good. Unfortunately, when
35:18
Speaker 1: they return, the British public are really unhappy, you know,
35:22
Speaker 1: the patriotism mentioned previously, because Riet to Maria is Catholic
35:31
Speaker 1: and they're like, this is a Catholic conspiracy, which is
35:35
Speaker 1: wild because the previous year they're trying to get a
35:38
Speaker 1: marriage with Spain, Like, wouldn't the public have had the
35:42
Speaker 1: same issue because being also a Catholic country, like it
35:47
Speaker 1: would have been the same thing, the same problem. But yeah, yeah,
35:54
Speaker 1: public public approval not going well, His popularity decreasing steadily,
36:03
Speaker 1: for the next year and James the First, basically the
36:13
Speaker 1: favorite was falling out of favor. But luckily for the
36:17
Speaker 1: Chicica Buckingham, King James dies in sixteen twenty five, and
36:24
Speaker 1: you'd think, shit, you know, stuff's gonna go really bad
36:27
Speaker 1: for bugging out at this point, you'd be wrong. You'd
36:31
Speaker 1: be absolutely wrong, because Charles is now King Charles the First.
36:38
Speaker 1: He is the ruler and he keeps villagers around like
36:44
Speaker 1: the Chicka Buckingham is basically his pal. You know, he
36:47
Speaker 1: helped him get married, he helped him learn to dance.
36:52
Speaker 1: It's a special kind of bond, that is. But yeah,
36:57
Speaker 1: they are very close, like to the point that he
37:01
Speaker 1: just becomes the Foreign Minister, like hey, that's his job now,
37:04
Speaker 1: that's his thing. And he's the only member of the
37:09
Speaker 1: previous court to keep his position sort of King James Court.
37:13
Speaker 1: When he dies, it gets dissolved. The courtiers just get
37:17
Speaker 1: you know, passed aside for whoever King Charles wants, and
37:25
Speaker 1: the Duke of Buckingham is the only one to keep
37:29
Speaker 1: his slot. Like, oh, I should mention he's kind of
37:33
Speaker 1: doing well with France, like him and Franz are pretty chill,
37:37
Speaker 1: to the point that somehow, somehow, you know, a couple
37:41
Speaker 1: hundred years down the line he ends up. Is another
37:45
Speaker 1: piece of historical fan fiction because the Duke of Buckingham,
37:50
Speaker 1: George Williams, shows up in The Three Musketeers by Alexander Duma, who,
37:58
Speaker 1: if you remember, also wrote for fiction about Marit, the
38:02
Speaker 1: Navarre Queen Margot, like like the Philippa Gregory of the
38:08
Speaker 1: nineteenth century, really had a thing for it, like imagine,
38:13
Speaker 1: imagine he must have had some kind of reputation, because
38:17
Speaker 1: Duma has a very specific fondness for people, especially royalty
38:23
Speaker 1: at this point. But Buckingham, he really was so charming,
38:30
Speaker 1: like he was he had he had that something about
38:35
Speaker 1: him because like he managed to enthrall like King James,
38:43
Speaker 1: and I swear this dude is like part of Siren
38:46
Speaker 1: because he also does the same for King Charles, like
38:49
Speaker 1: they are so like Charles gives him more positions and
38:56
Speaker 1: more titles, like he appoints him the Chancellor of cambrid
39:03
Speaker 1: Dune because the previous chancellor had died, like he passed away,
39:07
Speaker 1: and instead of you know, picking someone who was qualifying
39:11
Speaker 1: for the position, he put his pal in there nepotism,
39:16
Speaker 1: so basically in order to become the chancellor. There's like
39:19
Speaker 1: a vote that has to happen, so he's up for it,
39:23
Speaker 1: and then the son of the previous chancellor are also
39:26
Speaker 1: up for it. So there's a bunch of votes and
39:28
Speaker 1: they tally them up and williels he wins by three votes, right,
39:36
Speaker 1: and they're thinking, ah, geez, that that's a bit suspicious. Ah,
39:41
Speaker 1: And they thought they'd been tampered with. They thought it'd
39:43
Speaker 1: be messed with. But you know, the King is standing
39:46
Speaker 1: next to him, so he can't really accuse him of shit.
39:50
Speaker 1: But yeah, the main theory is that he also cheated
39:53
Speaker 1: his way into the role. Remember how I said he
39:56
Speaker 1: was super chill with Franz. Well, effectively, he wants to
40:01
Speaker 1: get his popularity back up because people not to go
40:05
Speaker 1: with him, you know, with the stealing the job and
40:07
Speaker 1: the whole Catholic bride thing and you know all the
40:10
Speaker 1: other stuff. We need to get this sordid and so
40:13
Speaker 1: what he does is he embroils himself in what is
40:18
Speaker 1: often referred to as the Catholic conspiracy. And so he
40:21
Speaker 1: wants to like fight.
40:23
Speaker 3: Against the Catholics and stuff, and decides to fight against
40:29
Speaker 3: his own fucking allies, the French and he thinks this
40:33
Speaker 3: is a great idea because you.
40:36
Speaker 1: Know, there's all of this like religious conflict happening in
40:38
Speaker 1: France at the time, and he decides to back the
40:41
Speaker 1: Protestant forces. This does not end well for anyone. I
40:48
Speaker 1: mean it shouldn't because most conflicts don't. And heard about
40:55
Speaker 1: this in ways that makes sense. He absolutely sucks at this.
40:59
Speaker 1: So much shit happens under his watch, like so much
41:03
Speaker 1: goes wrong. He buggers over them up, He fails to
41:08
Speaker 1: achieve strategic objectives. He doesn't equip the soldiers properly for
41:14
Speaker 1: any of their battles, e Bactically, they don't have enough
41:17
Speaker 1: like ammunition weapons, Like at one point they were supposed
41:24
Speaker 1: to get owner ship and sail away, but they were
41:28
Speaker 1: waiting so long that they ate all the provisions aboard
41:32
Speaker 1: the ship while they're waiting for musketballs. The man absolutely
41:38
Speaker 1: sucked at military anything anything military No good, very bad.
41:44
Speaker 1: He just he did so many things wrong. At one point,
41:49
Speaker 1: he accidentally tips off the enemy about their tactics, about
41:53
Speaker 1: their plans, about their strategies, Like, Sir, I feel like
41:59
Speaker 1: that's you know, the first rule, you know, don't just
42:05
Speaker 1: don't tell your enemies your plan of attack. Every single
42:11
Speaker 1: military operation that the Duke of Buckingham is involved in.
42:16
Speaker 1: Everyone he touches just turns to shit, and it was
42:19
Speaker 1: not doing well for his public opinion. Like it gets
42:23
Speaker 1: to the point that he's just sucking so much that
42:26
Speaker 1: every battlefilure just builds up that not only is the
42:30
Speaker 1: public against him, but so is Parliament, and they start
42:34
Speaker 1: refusing all of these requests for taxes and funds, and
42:40
Speaker 1: so he can't pay for these like excursions for his
42:45
Speaker 1: attempt at warring, Like he just can't afford it because
42:48
Speaker 1: they're just refusing to sign the check book and things.
42:54
Speaker 1: Things aren't going well because the Parliament they're just cutting
43:00
Speaker 1: him off, you know, they're ensuring that he doesn't have
43:04
Speaker 1: access to public money. And yeah, yeah, he goes bankrupt
43:11
Speaker 1: pretty quickly because the man clearly does not know how
43:16
Speaker 1: to be fiscally responsible. He tries, he tries to sort
43:23
Speaker 1: of get money in order to you know, do the war,
43:29
Speaker 1: like spending his own money actually and makes himself personally
43:35
Speaker 1: liable for paying off debts to several of his officers.
43:40
Speaker 1: Now you're going to be shocked at this, surprised even
43:47
Speaker 1: he could not manage to pay off said debts to
43:50
Speaker 1: the officers, and they waited ten months because they were patient,
43:56
Speaker 1: you know. And after that they thought, ah, this for
44:00
Speaker 1: a game of soldiers, and they just stole money. They
44:04
Speaker 1: just looted the King. They just looted it. They were like,
44:06
Speaker 1: IM gonna go into the king stores and look all
44:09
Speaker 1: the money were owed. Cool, good move their lads. How
44:15
Speaker 1: that didn't sour him in the King's favor, I'll never
44:18
Speaker 1: fucking know, because like people are coming in and stealing
44:22
Speaker 1: your money because this dude didn't pay them. Because he's
44:26
Speaker 1: just a consistent failure. Parliament is so sick and tired
44:33
Speaker 1: of him that they try to get rid of him
44:35
Speaker 1: and get him impeached and shit, they want to remove
44:38
Speaker 1: him from office, and they try and do this twice. However,
44:47
Speaker 1: both times they've tried to do this and steps the King.
44:53
Speaker 1: He dissolves parliament. He dissolves parliament twice. He does it
45:02
Speaker 1: twice before they have the opportunity, before they can fill
45:07
Speaker 1: out other forms and crosser t's and dot their eyes,
45:10
Speaker 1: before they can go through the full process in order
45:13
Speaker 1: to get rid of him. The King comes in and
45:16
Speaker 1: just saves us, which is not good because it showed
45:20
Speaker 1: that Charles wasn't super you know, loyal to his parliament
45:26
Speaker 1: in his country. He was more loyal to this one
45:28
Speaker 1: dude who kept fucking things up for the country. So again,
45:33
Speaker 1: popularity dwindling, very much, dwindling, so public opinion very much
45:43
Speaker 1: in the Vitrio stages at this point, for Vilios, the
45:48
Speaker 1: Duke of Buckingham is so awful, like he is so
45:53
Speaker 1: bad in doing so many bad things consecutively, one after
45:56
Speaker 1: another inner row that a conspiracy theory comes about that
46:03
Speaker 1: he's doing all these things because his doctor is practicing
46:07
Speaker 1: black magic on him. And you know, that's a completely
46:13
Speaker 1: logical and reasonable explanation, not that there's one dud's just
46:18
Speaker 1: an idiot and an arsehole. But yeah, things don't go
46:22
Speaker 1: well because an angry mob gets together and they kill
46:28
Speaker 1: the doctor. They kill George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham,
46:34
Speaker 1: his doctor. They're like, you're using magic on him, and
46:38
Speaker 1: beat him to death. But Buckingham as always undeterred. He's
46:44
Speaker 1: trying to get let Rochelle going on. He wants to
46:46
Speaker 1: continue this war that he has instigated, you know, and
46:52
Speaker 1: he's going down to Portsmouth to do it. And so
46:55
Speaker 1: he's there just hanging about the Greyround Pub when suddenly
46:59
Speaker 1: a man just lunges at him and stab stab stab
47:03
Speaker 1: stab stab. He is like violently stabbed, George Villiers shouts.
47:09
Speaker 1: Villon pulls the knife from his body, stumbles forward a
47:14
Speaker 1: few steps before collapsing on the ground and bleeding to death.
47:20
Speaker 1: And so on. The twenty third of August sixteen, twenty eight,
47:25
Speaker 1: George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, dies five days short
47:30
Speaker 1: of his thirty sixth birthday, after suffering a severe case
47:34
Speaker 1: of the mrduls. But who assassinated him It was a
47:39
Speaker 1: soldier called John Felton, So he had been on one
47:42
Speaker 1: of the doomed military campaigns with him, got severely injured,
47:47
Speaker 1: and then Buckingham passed him over for promotion, and Felton
47:51
Speaker 1: felt like he was oh it, and this man had
47:53
Speaker 1: fucked up his life and he was going to deal
47:56
Speaker 1: with that, and he did. I mean for it wasn't
48:01
Speaker 1: just like a personal situation. He felt like Billiers was
48:04
Speaker 1: like a tumor to Britain and that he had to
48:08
Speaker 1: be cut out, like he had to be removed in
48:11
Speaker 1: order to protect the country. So not only was it
48:16
Speaker 1: personal revenge, he believed he was doing it for the public,
48:21
Speaker 1: for public interest, and in a move that surprised absolutely
48:25
Speaker 1: no one. The British public they love John Felton. They
48:30
Speaker 1: think he's a hero. They're like, you got rid of
48:33
Speaker 1: the evil witch ding Dong, which is dead? Which which
48:36
Speaker 1: are the wicked? Which like they're celebrating, like he actually
48:41
Speaker 1: becomes a sort of folk hero in their eyes. So
48:44
Speaker 1: the public's really happy, like they're out celebrating and stuff,
48:47
Speaker 1: like they're having parties. And the King not so happy
48:52
Speaker 1: about this. Also, Parliament are too cool with, you know,
48:56
Speaker 1: for royalty and ability being stabbed in public because it's
49:00
Speaker 1: not good for them, you know, And so they're doing
49:04
Speaker 1: everything to like stop these celebrations happening. Like the son
49:09
Speaker 1: of some scholar or whatever raises a toast to John Felton,
49:15
Speaker 1: and the King finds him, you know, fine enough, that's grand,
49:20
Speaker 1: and then orders both of his ears to be cut off.
49:25
Speaker 1: Feels a bit extreme, but okay, So Felton he is
49:29
Speaker 1: caught and he is hung right, they just execute him
49:33
Speaker 1: and they're they're gonna put his body in display, so
49:35
Speaker 1: like that'll detear the public. Ah, it actually had the
49:39
Speaker 1: opposite effect. So instead of being like a warning the
49:43
Speaker 1: assassin's corpse becomes like this public attraction and people are
49:47
Speaker 1: venerating it, they're they praising it. It has the complete
49:52
Speaker 1: opposite effect of what they wanted it to do. That's
49:55
Speaker 1: how much they hated Filials, who ends up being buried
50:02
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50:07
Speaker 1: buried in a place that's supposed to be for royalty,
50:09
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50:14
Speaker 1: they had opinions on this, and there he's buried in
50:18
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50:23
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50:30
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's a good it's a good show
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Speaker 1: for listening. I've really been enjoying Katie Baser's song I'm
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Speaker 1: a problem just hitting me right, you know. Also, if
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Speaker 1: you go onto TikTok and there's it's like pop cost
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Speaker 1: musical theater. They do a version of nineteen eighty five
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Speaker 1: by Bowling for Soup, which if you put your EarPods in,
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Speaker 1: if you're in your divergin, it might just scratch you
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Speaker 1: right at the back of your brain. It's so nice
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Speaker 1: for reading, so many options, which one will I choose?
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Speaker 1: Has actually been hard because I actually been reading again
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Speaker 1: this week. No, you know what I'm going to give
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Speaker 1: you a book recommendation based on something I want to read.
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Speaker 1: So there used to be this sort of group of
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Speaker 1: books called point horror, like point thriller and point romance
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Speaker 1: I think as well. And they were young adult books,
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Speaker 1: so you would go from Goosebumps to the point horror.
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Speaker 1: So that was like you'd go from childhood Goosebumps teenage
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Speaker 1: young adult point horror. And I loved those books. Ar
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Speaker 1: al Stein, who wrote goose Bumps, actually wrote some of these,
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Speaker 1: and I am more specifically the Boyfriend and the Girlfriend,
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Speaker 1: like the boyfriend was my favorite because every time I
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Speaker 1: smell soap, I think of the Boyfriend. It's just ingrained
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Speaker 1: in me now, and I would love to start rereading
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Speaker 1: those point horror books. I haven't seen them in any
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Speaker 1: bookstore in forever, so I don't know if they're just
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Speaker 1: out of print or whatever. I have a Kindle, I'm
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Speaker 1: sure I can find them, but I would love a
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Speaker 1: physical it's the physical point horror book like so much.
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Speaker 1: You have no idea, but anyway, that is my recommendation
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Speaker 1: for now, and I hope you have a great week.
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Speaker 1: Arios A wad as them my friends, A bye bye