{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"House of Tudor - Part 4: Decline, division, and the shadow of extinction","description":"The gold has begun to tarnish. In the final years of the Tudors, anxiety and uncertainty stalk the palace halls. Elizabeth the First grows old, and the dynasty’s future is shrouded in fear. Rivalries sharpen. Every glance, every whisper, could mean a plot—or the end of a royal line.\r\n\r\nLong before Elizabeth’s last days, the seeds of decline had taken root. The reigns of Edward the Sixth and Mary the First were marked by violent religious swings and power struggles among ambitious nobles. Under the boy king Edward, Protestant reforms sweep through England. Churches are stripped bare, ancient rituals vanish, and the old order crumbles. But Edward is frail, and the court is riven by factions. The rise and fall of the Duke of Somerset and the Duke of Northumberland reveal a lurking instability beneath the surface of royal command.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thelineagearchive.com/dynasty/house-of-tudor","author_name":"The Archive Network"}