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Historians Dan Snow and Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigate the lives and deaths of some of Tudor England's most fascinating figures, including Anne Boleyn, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be one of the famed Princes in the Tower.
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00:09I'm Dan Snow and I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and together we're investigating the world of
00:15the Tudors in a whole new way. Oh wow. It really is a proper Game of Thrones. Starting with their
00:24deaths. These were some of the most famous figures in history. So this would have been
00:31where she died. Gosh. It's strange standing up here looking at the place she was executed and
00:37thinking what's that moment inevitable? I mean this is a sovereign queen being executed. Was it
00:44avoidable? This is a story that goes completely contrary to the version of events that Henry VIII
00:53and his cronies are putting out. Look at that. Shooter Rose. Wow. Did Warbeck make that confession?
01:08That does not look old enough to be written 500 years ago. Was she a pawn or was she the
01:13creator
01:14of her own demise? We can imagine her reading these letters from Henry. Isn't it amazing to be able to
01:20see that after all these years? What pulled the thread that led to their demise? And could it have
01:26been prevented? Did she make mistakes that led to that point? I think that's exactly the question. If
01:32only these walls could talk. There has been some extraordinary new evidence that I think might help
01:37us understand the events. A modern investigation uncovering fresh evidence and some age-old mysteries.
01:44So she wrote this six hours before her death? Unravel how the Tudors lost their heads on National Geographic.

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