Please welcome to the podcast Adam Pennington, who has written a book about The House of Pole, Henry VIII's cousins.

Published by Pen & Sword.

At the centre we have the matriarch Margaret Pole, daughter of the Duke of Clarence, the infamous victim of Malmsey wine.

Her son Reginald would go on to be the greatest supporter of Mary I, and Margaret's grand-daughter Dorothy would become a friend of Elizabeth I. You might say they were poles apart...

Let's find out more.

Welcome, Adam!

Get House of Pole:

https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Henry-VIII-and-the-Plantagenet-Poles-Hardback/p/50816/aid/1238

Catch Adam this weekend at the Katharine of Aragon Festival:

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/peterborough/peterborough-cathedral/the-exeter-conspiracy-henry-viii-s-destruction-of-his-own-family-with-adam-pennington/2026-01-29/18:45/t-jxkllep

Katharine of Aragon Festival 2026:

https://peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/about/history/katharine-of-aragon/kofa_26/

Find Adam:

https://www.instagram.com/thetudorchest

https://x.com/TheTudorChest

https://tudorblogger.substack.com/p/guest-post-q-and-a-with-adam-pennington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7MO9CM5T2k

Find Baroque:

https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/

https://www.reignoflondon.com/

https://substack.com/@ifitaintbaroquepodcast

Support Baroque:

https://www.patreon.com/c/Ifitaintbaroquepodcast/

https://buymeacoffee.com/ifitaintbaroque

If you would like to join Natalie on her walking tours in London with Reign of London:

Saxons to Stuarts:

https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-the-royal-british-kings-and-queens-walking-tour-t426011/

Tudors & Stuarts:

https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/royal-london-tudors-stuarts-walking-tour-t481355/

The Georgians:

https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/royal-london-the-georgians-walking-tour-t481358/

Naughty London:

https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-unsavory-history-guided-walking-tour-t428452/

For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/

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