They Hung Babies On Walls: A Day Inside the Tudor Royal Nursery

The Tudor royal nursery wasn't a cozy domestic space. It was a department of state, with its own hierarchy, its own politics, and sworn oaths of loyalty just to rock a cradle. This week we're going inside it: the Lady Mistress running the show, the wet nurses who gave up their families and their freedom to feed someone else's baby, the swaddling operation that occasionally involved hanging an infant on a wall, and the extraordinary lengths Henry VIII went to in order to keep his precious son Edward alive. Plus the women who made all of this work, and whom history mostly forgot to name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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They Hung Babies On Walls: A Day Inside the Tudor Royal Nursery is an episode from Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors by Heather Teysko.

This episode is 15:51 long.

This episode was published on Apr 8, 2026.

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