History Tea Time

By Lindsay HolidayHistory

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October 27 7 Royal Witches
Witch! The word struck terror in the hearts of many a medieval man. It whispers of people, mostly women, using dark magic and even selling their souls to Satan to get what they want. Forcing men to fall in love with them and cursing their enemies. Sorceresses have been feared since ancient times. And while their certainly have been purveyors of magical arts throughout history, it was often healers, midwives, girls dabbling in divination games and innocent people who were accused of the most heinous of enchanted crimes. Between 1300 and 1850, nearly 40,000 people in Europe were victims of witch trials. And 14,000 met their end on the gallows or the pyre. Some of them came from the highest ranks of society, even the royal family. In fact witchcraft was a convenient accusation to level against inconvenient royal women. As courts operated on a notion of guilty until proven innocent, and it was infuriatingly difficult to prove that you hadn’t danced in the moonlight, uttered a curse or poisoned the king, the stigma of sorcery was strong. Let’s meet 7 women from history who were accused of being Royal Witches.
Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans, 1371 – 1408
Veronika Desinićka, Countess of Celje, ? – 1425
Joan of Navarre, Queen of England, 1368 – 1437
Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bedford, 1415 – 1472
Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, 1400 – 1452
Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England, 1437 – 1492
Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, 1501? – 1536
Sources: Hollman, G. (2020). Royal witches: witchcraft and the nobility in fifteenth- century England. First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. New York, Pegasus Books.
Music: Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns, Public Domain, Performed by Kevin MacLeod
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34 min
October 20 4 Curses on the Romanov Dynasty of Russia
The Romanov Imperial House ruled Russia with an iron fist for 300 years. In that time they made plenty of enemies. From a grief-stricken mother who foretold the demise of the dynasty, to a scorned Tsaritsa who cursed St. Petersburg to calamity. From a hermit monk who claimed to know the hour of Catherine the Great’s death, to another monk, Rasputin, who cursed Tsar Nikolai’s family for causing his death. All culminating in the tragic slaying of the Imperial family, which fulfilled not one but two famous curses. Let’s take a spooky stroll through 3 centuries of Russia’s dark history and explore 4 curses and ominous prophecies laid on the Romanov dynasty.
1. “You began with the death of a Tsarevich, you will end with the death of a Tsarevich!” Ivan the Terrible, False Dmitry, Marina Mniszech, Michael Romanov
2. “St. Petersburg shall be empty!”
Peter the Great, Eudoxia Lopukhina, Empress Catherine I
3. “Empress Catherine will die in 10 months and 10 days!”
Catherine the Great, Monk Abel, Emperor Peter III, Emperor Paul I
4. Rasputin’s Curse "The Russian people will kill them!"
Emperor Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodrovna, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, Alexei
Music: From Russia With Love by Huma-Huma
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34 min
October 13 4 Spooky Stories of Royal Demons & Exorcisms
For millennia, royals have claimed that their right to rule over the unwashed masses was granted to them by God. But a few have been associated with powers originating far south of heaven. Tonight I’ll share with you the spooky and salacious tales of the demon countess who spawned the bloodthirsty Plantagenet dynasty, an unholy canine who ferociously defended his master on the battlefield; A holy roman Emperor who was not very holy and performed black masses on his Empress’s naked body; and a Spanish king who underwent exorcisms in an attempt to rid himself of his terrible afflictions.
The Demon Countess of Anjou
The Prince’s Poodle
From Hell
The UnHoly Roman Emperor’s Black Masses
The Exorcisms of The King of Spain
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31 min
October 06 Royals, Nobles & Mistresses with Syphilis
From sex-crazed libertines, to noble courtesans, to innocent Empresses; syphilis was a devastating disease which ravaged many, and sometimes changed the course of history. Let’s meet 10 royal and noble victims of this sexually transmitted infection.
Lorenzo de’Medici, Duke of Urbino 1492 – 1519
Maria Salviati de’ Medici 1499 – 1543
Abbas II of Persia, Shah of Iran 1632 – 1666
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 1647 – 1680
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678 – 1711
Sally Salisbury 1692 – 1724
Lola Montez, Countess of Landsfeld 1821 – 1861
Luís I, King of Portugal 1838 – 1889
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria 1858 – 1889
Archduke Otto Franz Joseph of Austria 1865 – 1906
Music: Butterflies in Love by Sir Cubworth

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34 min
September 29 Potential British Monarchs REJECTED for George I
In 1700 the Stuart Dynasty was out of heirs, save one, Princess Anne. Parliament studied the royal family tree to determine who was next in line. The problem was they were all catholic. The succession skipped over 41 closer relations until they got to the nearest living Protestant, Sophia, Electress of Hanover. The Act of Settlement of 1701 declared that all future British monarchs must be her descendant. She ended up dying before Anne and the throne went to her son, George I. But who were the 41 royals skipped over? French Princes, Italian Kings, A Queen of Spain and a couple of Holy Roman Empresses, let’s meet the fascinating potential British Monarchs that never where.
This succession uses the rules of male-preference primogeneture, the law of the land at the time. And only looks at dynasts who were alive in the year 1701.
Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303
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32 min
September 22 Anne, Queen of Great Britain & Ireland
Queen Anne was the younger sister of Mary II, half of England’s only joint monarchy, William and Mary. When they died, Anne had no interest in sharing the throne with her husband. She was the first married Queen of England to rule on her own. Anne was a strong political player and oversaw the creation of the new nation of Great Britain. She had a long term, possibly romantic relationship with Sarah Churchill, but when political differences tore them apart, she transferred her affections to another lady in waiting, Abigail Marsham. Anne had 17 pregnancies, but none of her children survived childhood. Her death meant the end of the Stuart Dynasty and the throne went to her German cousin, George I.
Let's examine the life of Queen Anne.
Music: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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31 min
September 17 Bonus! Spilling the Tea (on Tea), with You’re Dead To Me!
This week, we're bringing you a special teaser of You're Dead To Me, the BBC's hit comedy podcast that takes history seriously – on a topic close to our hearts, Tea!
In this episode, host Greg Jenner is joined by historian Professor Yangwen Zheng and comedian Hugh Dennis to trace the story of tea back to its roots in ancient China.
Expect hidden history, myth-busting and a lot of laughs. If you enjoy what you hear, find You're Dead To Me wherever you get your podcasts.

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8 min
September 15 Mary II, Queen of England, Scotland, & Ireland
Queen Mary II was 1/2 of England’s only joint monarchy, and half of a pair of powerful sister Queens. She betrayed her father and took his throne with the support of her Dutch husband, William of Orange. She preferred to take a back seat but ended up doing most of the governing while William was away at war. There is evidence that both she and her sister Anne had romantic relationships with women. Mary’s life was marred by reproductive tragedy and cut short by smallpox. Let's examine the life of Queen Mary II.
Music: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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25 min
September 08 Royals who Died of Bubonic Plague
As the great pestilence burned across central Asia, north Africa and Europe, roughly 100 million people lost their lives in the worst pandemic in human history. More than half of the populations of Florence, Paris and London fell victim. We will never know the names of most of the poor souls who met their end in mass graves. But perhaps the best way to put a human face on this apocalyptic event is to explore the lives of those victims for whom we do have carefully kept records - the Royals. Today let’s meet 21 Kings, Queens and Princes who where cut out of history by the scythe of the black death, and the many outbreaks of plague that followed. And see how their sudden deaths changed the course of history.
Abu Sa’id Bahadur Khan, Mongul Sultan
Joan of England, daughter of Edward III
Blanche of Lancaster
Edward of Angoulême, Son of Edward the Black Prince
Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England
Gruffudd ap Owain
George Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford, Future Prince of Wales
Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond
Joan II, Queen of Navarre
Jeanne of Burgundy, Queen of France
Bonne of Luxembourg
Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Aragon
Alfonso XI, King of Castile
Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal
Duarte, King of Portugal
Ludovico, King of Sicily
Luigi I , king of Naples
Maria I, Queen of Sicily
Erik Magnuson, King of Sweden
Beatrix of Bavaria, Queen of Sweden
Margrethe I of Denmark
Music: Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns, Public Domain, Performed by Kevin MacLeod

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31 min
September 01 A History of Bubonic Plague | The Black Death & Quarantining with The Decameron
“How many valiant men, how many fair ladies, how many sprightly youths, … breakfasted in the morning with their kinsfolk, comrades and friends, and that same night supped with their ancestors in the other world.” Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron
Between 1346 and 1353 a horrifying pestilence burned across Central Asia, North Africa and Europe. The infected, covered in bubos and burning with fever, died in agony, with no family left to care for them or priest to pray for their souls. In some areas 50% of the population was wiped out, leaving whole villages deserted with no one to bury the dead. Those who were lucky enough to be healthy, and have the means to do so, escaped disease riddled cities for the fresh, miasma-free air of the countryside. In the midst of this horror, Florentine Giovanni Boccaccio, wrote his seminal work, The Decameron, about 10 young people who flee the plague for a lavish, sexy Tuscan Villa vacation and to hopefully not die. This medieval masterpiece has recently been turned into a darkly hilarious Netflix series, which further explores the class and gender dynamics of the 14th century in a way that anyone who recently lived through a world-wide pandemic can relate to. Today lets explore the history and science behind the Black death; the plague pandemics that came before and after it, and find out if this horrendous disease is still a risk today. Plus we’ll find out what the Decameron has to say about life, love, sex, and surviving the plague in 1348 and today.
Music: Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns, Public Domain, Performed by Kevin MacLeod
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32 min