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    Noble Blood

    Noble Blood

    Noble Blood

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    Length:
    186 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Author Dana Schwartz explores the stories of some of history’s most fascinating royals: the tyrants and the tragic, the murderers and the murdered, and everyone in between. Because when you’re wearing a crown, mistakes often mean blood.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 186 episodes

    Title

    The Corpse on Trial

    When Pope Stephen was putting his predecessor on trial, there were signs that what he w...

    32 minutes
    		May 21, 2024

    The Affair of the Diamond Necklace

    Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy was a French countess with a dubious claim to nobility and ...

    60 minutes
    		May 18, 2024

    The Female Pharaoh

    From wife and sister of a Pharaoh, to regent to eventually Pharaoh in her own right, Ha...

    33 minutes
    		May 14, 2024

    Death and the King's Favorite (with Benjamin Woolley)

    George Villiers was in his early twenties when he caught the eye of King James the VI a...

    42 minutes
    		May 07, 2024

    The Nun of Monza, Part 2

    CW: murder, gore. Sister Virgina (born Marianna) had made a terrible choice in secret l...

    42 minutes
    		Apr 30, 2024

    The Nun of Monza, Part 1

    For plenty of young women in the early modern era, if their families couldn't afford th...

    43 minutes
    		Apr 23, 2024

    Lucretia as a Symbol

    Why did the Roman Empire do away with kings? Simone de Beauvior would write that, throu...

    42 minutes
    		Apr 16, 2024

    A Grand Duchess Above the Barber Shop

    History is fascinated by the possible escape of Anastasia Romanov, the Grand Duchess ki...

    27 minutes
    		Apr 09, 2024

    The Daring Prison Break of the Emperor in Exile

    When a coalition of European nations invaded Paris in 1815, they offered Napoleon what ...

    44 minutes
    		Apr 02, 2024

    The Dinner Party at the End of the Iranian Monarchy

    When Mohammad Reza Shah got into a helicopter in 1979, he had no idea that it would be ...

    32 minutes
    		Mar 26, 2024