Streamed live, we covered some history anniversaries falling this week:
Raising the Mary Rose on 11th October 1982, and some surprising facts about how it was nearly blown up in the 19th century!
Henry VIII is given the title 'Fidei Defensor' by Pope Leo X, on 11th October 1521
12th October 1537, Edward VI is born, my visit to the room in which Jane Seymour gave birth. .
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Raising the Mary Rose