Regency era

Hello and welcome to this episode of Royals, Rebels and Romantics, where we'll be welcoming Anne Foster, the author of Rebel of the Regency, a deep look into the life of Caroline of Brunswick, someone we don't always spend a lot of time thinking about.

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The wonderful cover.

And for me, when I saw that cover, it was like, oh, that's fabulous.

So I want to just kind of jump in and talk about this woman because we hear a lot about the Regency.

It's a very popular time and yet we don't hear about her.

So tell us a little bit about how this woman got to be part of the British Regency, where she came from, and maybe what interested you as a historian in zooming in on her.

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Now to today's subject.

Yeah, so good.

There's also this incredible bits of Regency score going on because he's like on the upper decks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's happening? There's some like brutal cuts.

And I like that the characters are memorable and and genuine, and some of them are just downright awful and others are really kind.

And it's told in this personal diary style that kind of feels right for that sort of Victorian England and that Regency England and what life you would like to think was like, but probably isn't anything like reality.

And it actually, I think, why I liked it so much is it reminded me one of my childhood favourites, which was Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables.

And it has that kind of feel about it.

Ali, so where are you taking us for the third course then?

I'll be travelling through Regency Britain with historic cook Paul Couchman and following what people ate on the road, at inns and around the country house table.

And my session is called Food on the Move.

And I'm so honored that Paul will be joining me.