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Sep 8, 2022
Informative and engaging
Dec 4, 2021
I was surprised at how much I liked this podcast! Each episode is so well produced, the story telling us poignant, and the information provided is enough to entertain without being stuffy or boring.
Aug 31, 2021
Sep 9, 2020
Mar 2, 2020
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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The Maxwell Prison Break from the Tower of London
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Dec 03, 2024 |
Dunstan and Eadwig's Notorious Twosome
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Nov 26, 2024 |
The 'Unruly' British Monarchy (with David Mitchell)
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Nov 19, 2024 |
The 500-Year Medici Mystery
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Nov 12, 2024 |
The Case of the Missing Novelist
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Nov 08, 2024 |
The Murder of Licoricia of Winchester
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Nov 05, 2024 |
The Impossible Identity of Elegabalus
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Oct 29, 2024 |
Gilles de Rais, Baron Serial Killer of Legend
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Oct 22, 2024 |
The Notorious Banquet of Chestnuts
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Oct 15, 2024 |
Napoleon's Brother Off Exit 7
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Oct 08, 2024 |
Miscalculations in the Court of Richard II (with Helen Castor)
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Oct 01, 2024 |
Lettice Knollys and her Pride
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Sep 24, 2024 |
The Witch of the Ottoman Empire
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Sep 17, 2024 |
Henry V (with Dan Jones)
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Sep 10, 2024 |
"The Princess with the Sad Eyes"
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Sep 03, 2024 |
A Double Murder in Madrid
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Aug 27, 2024 |
The Cannibal Count of Pisa
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Aug 20, 2024 |
The Noble Revolutionary
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Aug 13, 2024 |
The Princess and the Commoner
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Aug 06, 2024 |
Prometheus in Paris
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Jul 30, 2024 |
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt Among the Royals (with History On Trial's Mira Hayward)
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Jul 23, 2024 |
Empires and the Benin Bronzes
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Jul 16, 2024 |
The Cabbage King and Queen vs. the Nazis
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Jul 09, 2024 |
Live by the Guillotine, Die by the Guillotine
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Jul 02, 2024 |
A Rebel Heiress in the French Royal Family
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Jun 25, 2024 |
How the Duke of Monmouth Lost His Head
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Jun 18, 2024 |
Love and Tragedy at the Taj Mahal
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Jun 11, 2024 |
Nell Gwyn's Cinderella Story
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Jun 04, 2024 |
The Queen of Romance
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May 28, 2024 |
The Corpse on Trial
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May 21, 2024 |
The Female Pharaoh
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May 14, 2024 |
Death and the King's Favorite (with Benjamin Woolley)
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May 07, 2024 |
The Nun of Monza, Part 2
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Apr 30, 2024 |
The Nun of Monza, Part 1
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Apr 23, 2024 |
Lucretia as a Symbol
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Apr 16, 2024 |
A Grand Duchess Above the Barber Shop
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Apr 09, 2024 |
The Daring Prison Break of the Emperor in Exile
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Apr 02, 2024 |
The Dinner Party at the End of the Iranian Monarchy
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Mar 26, 2024 |
Odoacer and Theodoric, the Barbarian Kings of the Roman Empire
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Mar 19, 2024 |
Napoleon's Coup Within a Coup
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Mar 12, 2024 |
How Ada Lovelace Constructed Her Wings
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Mar 05, 2024 |
The Plot to Undo Mary Eleanor Bowes, Part 2
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Feb 27, 2024 |
The Plot to Undo Mary Eleanor Bowes, Part 1
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Feb 20, 2024 |
The Sheika Kept Prisoner (with Heidi Blake)
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Feb 13, 2024 |
Introducing: History on Trial
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Feb 09, 2024 |
The Venetian Doge Condemned in Memory
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Feb 06, 2024 |
Introducing: Very Special Episodes
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Feb 01, 2024 |
Pompey and the Prince
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Jan 30, 2024 |
The Contradictions and Controversies of Marc de Montifaud
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Jan 23, 2024 |
John Dee's Language of the Angels
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Jan 16, 2024 |
"Eat Him If You Like"
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Jan 09, 2024 |
How Pope Joan Became the High Priestess
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Jan 02, 2024 |
William the Conqueror, Christmas King
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Dec 26, 2023 |
Napoleon's Josephine (with Jennifer Wright)
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Dec 19, 2023 |
The Queen Caught Between Kingdoms
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Dec 12, 2023 |
Charlotte Corday, the Angel of Assassination
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Dec 05, 2023 |
Caroline Norton Balancing the Scales of Justice
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Nov 28, 2023 |
The Princess Who Wrestled for Her Future
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Nov 21, 2023 |
The World Inside of Rudolf II's Cabinet of Curiosities
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Nov 14, 2023 |
The Tabloid Sacrifices of the Spare, Princess Margaret
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Nov 07, 2023 |
Eleanor Cobham, Necromancer Witch
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Oct 31, 2023 |
The Thrift-Shop Pope
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Oct 24, 2023 |
The Cage of the Ottoman King
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Oct 17, 2023 |
The Stories of the Tsar Monk
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Oct 10, 2023 |
The Hidden Life of Henry VIII's Fool (With Peter K. Andersson)
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Oct 03, 2023 |
The Arsenic Wife (Part 2)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
The Arsenic Wife (Part 1)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
The Tragic True-Crime Life of Lady Lucan
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Sep 12, 2023 |
The Great Hope of Spain
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Sep 05, 2023 |
The Eviction of the Texas Princess
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Aug 29, 2023 |
Eleanor of Aquitaine Imprisoned
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Aug 22, 2023 |
Sadism in the Bastille
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Aug 15, 2023 |
The Death and Life of Amy Robsart
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Aug 08, 2023 |
Dumas and Napoleon
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Aug 01, 2023 |
The Resistance Queen Wilhelmina
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Jul 25, 2023 |
Queen Tamar's Revenge
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Jul 18, 2023 |
Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I (with Tracy Borman)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
Edward VI Among the Women
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Jul 04, 2023 |
The Men Who Would Kill the Medici, Part 2
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Jun 27, 2023 |
The Men Who Would Kill the Medici, Part 1
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Jun 20, 2023 |
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Fighting To Be Seen
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Jun 13, 2023 |
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Excellent or Nothing
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Jun 06, 2023 |
The Woman Who Wrote Fairy Tales
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May 30, 2023 |
Through the Eyes of La Castiglione
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May 23, 2023 |
The Pretty Prime Minister (with Jennifer Wright)
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May 16, 2023 |
The Party to End Nicolas Fouquet's Career
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May 09, 2023 |
The Self-Reported Life of the Sham Prince
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May 02, 2023 |
The Resurrection of the Parking Lot King
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Apr 25, 2023 |
Lucy Walter's Lover and Child
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Apr 18, 2023 |
"And Historians Will Call Them..."
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Apr 11, 2023 |
Pope Pius the Silent
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Apr 04, 2023 |
The Isshi Incident
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Mar 28, 2023 |
The Pretender Prince
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Mar 21, 2023 |
The Mad King's Queen
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Mar 14, 2023 |
A Duke Murdered in the Streets of Paris
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Mar 07, 2023 |
Lady Seymour Worsley's Worth
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Feb 28, 2023 |
The Dollar Princesses
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Feb 21, 2023 |
The She-Wolf, Her Husband, and Their Lovers
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Feb 14, 2023 |
The Trials of Joanna of Naples
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Feb 07, 2023 |
The Crécy Campaign (with Dan Jones)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
The Portrait of Dido Belle
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Jan 24, 2023 |
...The Gunpowder Treason and Plot
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Jan 17, 2023 |
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November...
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Jan 10, 2023 |
In No Way Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire
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Jan 03, 2023 |
The Queen of England and the Queen of Pirates
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Dec 27, 2022 |
The Curse of the Koh-I-Noor
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Dec 20, 2022 |
Bonus Episode: Dana Schwartz on Significant Others
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Dec 19, 2022 |
The Princess and the Shaman and the Royal House of Norway
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Dec 13, 2022 |
The Corpse of Inês de Castro
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Dec 06, 2022 |
The Count, the Moose, and Thomas Jefferson
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Nov 29, 2022 |
The Secret History of Emperor Justinian
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Nov 22, 2022 |
Lady Mary Wroth's Urania
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Nov 15, 2022 |
Mansa Musa and the World Map
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Nov 08, 2022 |
The Execution of the Roman Virgin
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Nov 01, 2022 |
The Princess of Monte Carlo
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Oct 25, 2022 |
The Irish Crown Jewels, Separated
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Oct 18, 2022 |
The Peasants vs. John of Gaunt (with Helen Carr)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
The Bewitched Events at the Tour de Nesle
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Oct 04, 2022 |
Libuše and Her City Touching the Stars
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Sep 27, 2022 |
Queen Elizabeth II's Greatest Regret
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Sep 20, 2022 |
The Love of the Duchess of Devonshire, Part 2
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Sep 13, 2022 |
The Love of the Duchess of Devonshire, Part 1
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Sep 06, 2022 |
The Legend of the Trung Sisters
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Aug 30, 2022 |
The Duke and Adolf Hitler
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Aug 23, 2022 |
The White Ship on the English Channel
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Aug 16, 2022 |
The Adult Sons of the Hanover Line in Crisis
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Aug 09, 2022 |
The Royal Suffragette
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Aug 02, 2022 |
Surgery of the First World War, with Lindsey Fitzharris
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Jul 26, 2022 |
Ivan the Terrible and his Oldest Son
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Jul 19, 2022 |
Queen Victoria, in White, in Black, in White
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Jul 12, 2022 |
Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate
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Jul 05, 2022 |
The Safavid Princess in Power
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Jun 28, 2022 |
The First New Chronicle
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Jun 21, 2022 |
The Princess Imprisoned in her Celle
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Jun 14, 2022 |
The Argyll Scandal
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Jun 07, 2022 |
Jeanne de Clisson, Pirate Terror of France
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May 31, 2022 |
The Death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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May 24, 2022 |
The Life of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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May 17, 2022 |
Medieval History with Dan Jones
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May 10, 2022 |
Ra Ra Rasputin
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Apr 26, 2022 |
The Romantics of Villa Diodati
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Apr 12, 2022 |
Empress Sisi's Beating Heart
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Mar 29, 2022 |
The Princess That England Lost
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Mar 15, 2022 |
The Ghost Princes and Richard III
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Mar 01, 2022 |
The 'Six' Wives: An Interview with Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow of 'Six'
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Feb 15, 2022 |
The Rice Box
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Feb 01, 2022 |
The Queen's Goddaughter
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Jan 18, 2022 |
Boudica Victoria
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Jan 04, 2022 |
A King Legitimate and Illegitimate
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Dec 21, 2021 |
Trial By Combat
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Dec 07, 2021 |
Murder, Madness, and Eric XIV
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Nov 23, 2021 |
The Tiger of Mysore
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Nov 09, 2021 |
Darya Saltykova, Serial Killer
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Oct 26, 2021 |
The Blood Countess Elizabeth Báthory
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Oct 12, 2021 |
The Mistress, the Murderer
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Sep 28, 2021 |
The Runaway Duchess
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Sep 14, 2021 |
The Schemes of Countess Frances Carr
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Aug 31, 2021 |
The Beheading of the Cousin Queen
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Aug 17, 2021 |
The Prince's Marriage Test
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Aug 03, 2021 |
Lovers and La Maupin
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Jul 20, 2021 |
The Later Life of Bloody Mary
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Jul 06, 2021 |
The Early Life of Bloody Mary
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Jun 22, 2021 |
Queen Christina Removed Her Own Crown
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Jun 08, 2021 |
Historical Mythbusting Spectacular!
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May 25, 2021 |
The Mad Tyrant, Hey Hey!
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May 11, 2021 |
The Double Agent
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Apr 27, 2021 |
In the Shadow of the Great
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Apr 13, 2021 |
The First and Last Emperor of America
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Mar 30, 2021 |
From Poland with Love
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Mar 16, 2021 |
The People's Princess (with Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall)
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Mar 02, 2021 |
The Three Husbands of Lucrezia Borgia
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Feb 16, 2021 |
Queen Njinga's Cleverness
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Feb 02, 2021 |
All Germany Talking of It
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Jan 19, 2021 |
Juana La Loca
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Jan 05, 2021 |
The Devil and the Duchess de Praslin
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Dec 22, 2020 |
Piers Gaveston, the King's Favorite
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Dec 08, 2020 |
King George Washington I
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Nov 24, 2020 |
Charles the Beloved, the Mad, the Fool
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Nov 10, 2020 |
The Beggar Princess of Bristol
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Oct 27, 2020 |
What Crown Prince Wilhelm Left Behind
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Oct 13, 2020 |
The Blood Sacrifice of the Tang Emperor
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Sep 29, 2020 |
Grand Princess Olga of Kiev Takes Her Revenge
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Sep 15, 2020 |
How Tycho Brahe Saw the Stars
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Sep 01, 2020 |
The Távora Executions
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Aug 18, 2020 |
The Red Paint on Leopold II
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Aug 04, 2020 |
Queen Caroline Matilda's Personal Doctor
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Jul 21, 2020 |
ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: The Tilly Cult
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Jul 07, 2020 |
The Bloody Queen of Madagascar
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Jun 23, 2020 |
The Crown Prince and His Lover Dead
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Jun 09, 2020 |
Survived
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May 26, 2020 |
Beheaded II
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May 12, 2020 |
Divorced II
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Apr 28, 2020 |
Died
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Apr 14, 2020 |
Beheaded
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Mar 31, 2020 |
Divorced
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Mar 17, 2020 |
The Witch-Hunter King
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Mar 03, 2020 |
The Ghosts that Haunted the Female Emperor
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Feb 18, 2020 |
Catherine the Great and her Husband the Mediocre
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Feb 04, 2020 |
Today We Leave for Mexico
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Jan 21, 2020 |
The Swan King Went Mad
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Jan 07, 2020 |
The Neck and the Necklace
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Dec 24, 2019 |
The Ice Queen
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Dec 10, 2019 |
The Wedding Ended in Blood
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Nov 26, 2019 |
Let Him Be Hanged There for a Lamb
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Nov 12, 2019 |
The Marquise and Her Poisons
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Oct 29, 2019 |
The Butler, in the Bedroom, with a Sabre
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Oct 15, 2019 |
The Maybe Queen Arbella
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Oct 01, 2019 |
What Eye Has Wept for George IV?
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Sep 17, 2019 |
Until We Meet Again
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Sep 03, 2019 |
Ever Dearest Cousin Nicky
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Aug 20, 2019 |
The Butcher Baronet
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Aug 06, 2019 |
The Desperate Young King Charles II
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Jul 23, 2019 |
The Second Death of Marie Antoinette
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Jul 09, 2019 |
Noble Blood - Official Trailer
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Jul 02, 2019 |