Episode 104 looks at Elizabeth’s relationship with the Portuguese Pretender, Don Antonio, when Philip II of Spain took the Portuguese throne. What does a Portuguese succession crisis have to do with Elizabeth? Listen to the episode to find out.
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Elizabethan Foreign Policy in Microcosm: The Portuguese Pretender, 1580-89