Death, Desire, Power & Scandal: The House of Dudley
Dan Snow's History Hit
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John Dudley's Conversion to Catholicism on the Scaffold
There is an interpretation of john dudley that he's always instrumentalis about religion. He makes this astonishing conversion to catholicism on the scaffold. Do you think this is to try and save his family? I think that there's a very good chance that that is the case. And after two generations in which the line of the dudleys had been painted and executed as traitors, it's perhaps astonishing that the most famous dudley came next.
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