<p>This week we meet France's second Empress of the First Empire, Austrian Archduchess Marie Louise. At only 18 years old, she marries her father's enemy, the now 40 year old Napoleon Bonaparte, in hopes of securing an heir to his throne and legitimizing himself as a monarch of Europe. While things start out well for the new couple, an old problem reemerges changing everything. </p>

This week we meet France's second Empress of the First Empire, Austrian Archduchess Marie Louise. At only 18 years old, she marries her father's enemy, the now 40 year old Napoleon Bonaparte, in hopes of securing an heir to his throne and legitimizing himself as a monarch of Europe. While things start out well for the new couple, an old problem reemerges changing everything.

<p>This week we meet France's second Empress of the First Empire, Austrian Archduchess Marie Louise. At only 18 years old, she marries her father's enemy, the now 40 year old Napoleon Bonaparte, in hopes of securing an heir to his throne and legitimizing himself as a monarch of Europe. While things start out well for the new couple, an old problem reemerges changing everything.&nbsp;</p>

Reign On Me | Episode 1.13 | A New Empress and an Old Problem

Reign On Me is a history podcast by Jennifer Gulbrandsen that goes outside the box of regular history podcasts and dishes the real tea about Europe's royal houses. 

'Season One | Imperial Bees' covers the houses of Beauharnais, Bonaparte, and Bernadotte, and how the royal houses they established still impact modern monarchies and the world today. 

'Season Two | The Hot Mess Hapsburgs' covers the final three decades of the Austrian Empire and how monarchy changed after the industrial revolution.

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Reign On Me is a history podcast by Jennifer Gulbrandsen that goes outside the box of regular history podcasts and dishes the real tea about Europe's royal houses. 'Season One | Imperial Bees' covers the houses of Beauharnais, Bonaparte, and Bernadotte, and how the royal houses they established still impact modern monarchies and the world today. 'Season Two | The Hot Mess Hapsburgs' covers the final three decades of the Austrian Empire and how monarchy changed after the industrial revolution.

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