{"id":14221,"date":"2022-05-06T13:34:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=207620"},"modified":"2022-05-06T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:57:08","slug":"the-dudleys-power-behind-the-tudor-throne","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-dudleys-power-behind-the-tudor-throne\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dudleys: power behind the Tudor throne"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Rhiannon Davies\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 06 May 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The might of the Tudor dynasty<\/a> was built on the blood and sweat of three generations of another family \u2013 the Dudleys. And sometimes, they paid the ultimate price. Rhiannon Davies speaks to Joanne Paul about the members of the family who were key players in the Tudor era, from Edmund Dudley\u2019s efforts to raise taxes for Henry VII<\/a> to Robert Dudley<\/a>\u2019s flirtatious friendship with Elizabeth I<\/a>.<\/p>\n\nhttps:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/05\/Dudleys-b220032.mp3<\/a><\/audio>

Joanne Paul is the author of The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England<\/em> (Penguin, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n