Join us this month and explore the love stories of the past.

This February we're sharing our chats to various historians and covering all the ways that Royals can come together, be it through arranged marriage, secret engagements or chance meetings. 

Only Love Can Hurt Like This..

On this episode of our Valentines Series, we’re looking at couples, where an arranged marriage of a monarch led to unforeseen consequences: feelings, but unfortunately, unreciprocated.

We’ve invited historians Leah Redmond Chang and Andrea Zuvich to talk about the unrequited feelings of Catherine de Medici towards Henry II of France and Catherine of Braganza’s toward Charles II.

Please find Leah's book here:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/young-queens-9781526613424/ in the UK and

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374294489 in the USA.

Andrea has written several books on the Stuarts, please find below:

https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sex-and-Sexuality-in-Stuart-Britain-Paperback/p/17131/aid/1238

https://www.amberley-books.com/a-year-in-the-life-of-stuart-britain.html

https://www.amberley-books.com/the-stuarts-in-100-facts.html

For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/

To book a walking tour with Natalie and talk more about the medieval Royal London, please visit

https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-the-royal-british-kings-and-queens-walking-tour-t426011/

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