In this episode, listen to St. Andrews History PhD student, Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart, as they tell the forgotten life story of the Greatest Man from the Smallest County in all of England, Jeffrey Hudson. As a young boy of only 1 1/2 foot tall, at the age of 7 his life changed forever when Charles I friend, the Duke of Buckingham, had him become his household dwarf before showing him at a royal banquet, which saw him given a new position as court dwarf and wonder (someone celebrated for looking physically different but not considered a monster) in Queen Henrietta Maria’s royal household. What followed was a life of great privilege but also great sorrow, as Hudson found himself over his life defined as everything from court dwarf, entertainer, warrior, Civil War Captain of Horse, Ottoman slave, Catholic Prisoner, Elderly Pauper to Murderer.