November 17 - The queen is dead! Long live the queen!

On this day in Tudor history, 17th November 1558, forty-two-year-old Queen Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, died at St James’s Palace in London. She passed the throne on to her twenty-five-year-old half-sister, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who became Queen Elizabeth I.

In today's talk, Claire Ridgway, author of "On This Day in Tudor History", tells of the accession of Queen Elizabeth I and the traditional story of Elizabeth finding out that she was queen at Hatfield.

You can see this podcast as a video at the following link:
https://youtu.be/93Gtppjj8C4