Noble Blood

By iHeartPodcasts and Grim & MildSociety & Culture History

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Noble Blood episodes

March 31, 2020 Beheaded
Anne of Boleyn was Henry VIII's second wife.

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28 min
March 17, 2020 Divorced
Catherine of Aragon was Henry VIII's first wife.

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26 min
March 03, 2020 The Witch-Hunter King
During a post-wedding detour in Denmark, James VI of Scotland learned of the evils of witches, and he brought his anti-witch fervor with him when he returned to Scotland.

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23 min
February 18, 2020 The Ghosts that Haunted the Female Emperor
In 7th-century China, Wu Zetian went from low-tiered concubine to Empress and then, finally, to Emperor in her own right. Her legacy is murky and strange, and her rise to power is trickled with blood.

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22 min
February 04, 2020 Catherine the Great and her Husband the Mediocre
Catherine the Great, Russia's most famous Empress, wasn't born in Russia—she was a minor German princess engaged to the future Emperor. But less than a year after her husband ascended to the Russian throne, Catherine overthrew him in a coup with the help of her lover in one of the most extraordinary political maneuvers in history.

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27 min
January 21, 2020 Today We Leave for Mexico
She was born Charlotte of Belgium, before fate re-named her Carlota of Mexico. She and her husband were high-minded, idealistic imperialists, ready to forge their destiny on a new continent. But they were woefully unprepared for the reality that awaited them outside their palace walls.

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21 min
January 07, 2020 The Swan King Went Mad
Only days after he was deposed, King Ludwig II of Bavaria died in an apparent suicide. But was it murder? Or was it just the final act of a king who had gone mad with love and with passion, born into the wrong century?

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25 min
December 24, 2019 The Neck and the Necklace
"The Queen's death must be dated from the Diamond Necklace Trial." The nation turned against Queen Marie Antoinette when she became an unwitting pawn in the most ambitious catfish in history.

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26 min
December 10, 2019 The Ice Queen
Bitterly lonely and abandoned by her family, Anna Ivanovna grew to hate love. And when she became the unlikely Empress of Russia she used her power to build an ice palace that was both a spectacle and a torture chamber.

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23 min
November 26, 2019 The Wedding Ended in Blood
The wedding between Margot of Valois and Henry of Navarre was meant to end religious fighting in France. It didn't.

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25 min

About Noble Blood

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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…