Noble Blood

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.

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Pompey and the Prince

Pompey and the Prince

Jean Baptiste Charbonneau is best known for something that he accomplished as an infant -- traveling with his mother, Sacagawea, and Lewis and Clark with the Corps of Discovery to the Pacific Ocean. B...

30 Tammi 202433min

The Contradictions and Controversies of Marc de Montifaud

The Contradictions and Controversies of Marc de Montifaud

In the late 19th century, French writer Marc de Montifaud was sentenced to prison for indecency in his work. But rather than being sent to the rather cushy location for literary criminals, he was sent...

23 Tammi 202439min

John Dee's Language of the Angels

John Dee's Language of the Angels

Alchemist, magician, astronomer, astrologer - John Dee served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, interpreting the stars for her. And when a comet crossed the sky, he told her that it portended the bi...

16 Tammi 202429min

"Eat Him If You Like"

"Eat Him If You Like"

CW: Gore, cannibalism. The village of Hautefaye was a sleepy town in France best known for a local fair. But in the summer of 1870, gripped by paranoia and political anger, the villagers turned on a ...

9 Tammi 202435min

How Pope Joan Became the High Priestess

How Pope Joan Became the High Priestess

According to legend, around 1100, a woman disguised herself as a man and was unanimously elected Pope. The ruse lasted until she gave birth while riding her horse through the streets of Rome. The stor...

2 Tammi 202446min

William the Conqueror, Christmas King

William the Conqueror, Christmas King

William the Conqueror is considered the first King of England. But the road to his victory at the Battle of Hastings was strange and challenging, and it would take more than a coronation to get Englan...

26 Joulu 202330min

Napoleon's Josephine (with Jennifer Wright)

Napoleon's Josephine (with Jennifer Wright)

The wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, Josephine went from a sugar plantation to prison to Empress. But her rise and her fall reveal a dark undercurrent in the trend toward women in post-Revolutionary France...

19 Joulu 202349min

The Queen Caught Between Kingdoms

The Queen Caught Between Kingdoms

When her husband, King John of England died, the widowed Isabelle of Angouleme sailed back to France to fight for her own independent kingdom. But over decades of trying to pit England and France agai...

12 Joulu 202339min

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