Harald Hardrada and Henry VIII’s Nonsuch Palace: Ambition on the Edge

This episode follows Harald Hardrada from his exile in Norway through his time with Yaroslav the Wise, as a Byzantine Varangian, to his ill‑fated campaign at Stamford Bridge. It then turns to Henry VIII’s Nonsuch Palace, the extravagant Tudor project that reflected royal ambition but vanished by the 1680s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices