On this day in Tudor history, 24 September 1561, a baby with a claim and a cloud was born inside the Tower of London.
Meet Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, son of Lady Katherine Grey (Jane Grey’s sister) and Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, a couple who secretly married without Elizabeth I’s permission.    The queen refused to recognise the union, branding their Tower-born child illegitimate… yet his pedigree ran straight through Mary Tudor, Queen of France, per Henry VIII’s will.

In this episode:

• The secret marriage, Tower imprisonment, and Beauchamp’s contested status
• Why his birth sat at the centre of England’s succession web
• His own secret match to Honora Rogers (and the family row it sparked)
• How his son William Seymour later eloped with Arbella Stuart
• What James I did, ...