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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 wearing a crown, mistakes often mean blood.

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"The Apple is Ripe; Pick It Now Or It Will Rot" 2026-09-01 · 35m
Lord Kitchener Wants You! 2026-08-25 · 23m
Frances Duff's Jamaican Inheritance 2026-08-18 · 28m
Children of the Moon [from Very Special Episodes] 2026-08-16 · 43m
The Surreal Life of Elsa Schiaparelli 2026-08-11 · 47m
The Tudor Villainess 2026-08-04 · 36m
The House of Boleyn (with Tracy Borman) 2026-07-28 · 34m
How a Dog Talks: The Surprising Redemption of Comic Sans [from Very Special Episodes] 2026-07-26 · 37m
The King for a Day 2026-07-21 · 32m
Wyatt and Elizabeth in Revolt 2026-07-14 · 29m
How to Start a Monarchy from Scratch (Part 2) 2026-07-07 · 36m
Chaotic Philanthropy: Saint Joan of the Golden Arches [from Very Special Episodes] 2026-07-05 · 47m
How to Start a Monarchy from Scratch (Part 1) 2026-06-30 · 25m
Countess of the Demimonde 2026-06-23 · 38m
The Forbidden Star Trek Fanfiction [from Very Special Episodes] 2026-06-20 · 51m
The Chloroform Baronet (Part 2) 2026-06-16 · 36m
The Chloroform Baronet (Part 1) 2026-06-09 · 23m
Napoleon's Forgotten Wife 2026-06-02 · 36m
The Other James Bond [from Very Special Episodes] 2026-05-30 · 50m
When the Kennedeys met the Windsors (with Caroline Hallemann) 2026-05-26 · 32m
Kaspar Hauser Came to Town 2026-05-19 · 35m
Exit Strategy: They Vanished Into Siberia for Over 40 Years [from Very Special Episodes] 2026-05-16 · 51m
The Mind of Émilie du Châtelet (Part 2) 2026-05-12 · 47m
The Mind of Émilie du Châtelet (Part 1) 2026-05-05 · 31m
The Virgin and Thomas Seymour 2026-04-28 · 40m
Marilyn, Hamilton + John Wilkes Booth's Statue: NYC History Hiding in Plain Sight 2026-04-25 · 49m
The Mad Baron in Mongolia (Part 2) 2026-04-21 · 28m
The Mad Baron in Mongolia (Part 1) 2026-04-14 · 29m
This Is Not a Drill: Hawaii's Text Message Debacle [from Very Special Episodes] 2026-04-11 · 54m
The Queen Mother Who Refused to Die 2026-04-07 · 34m
A Medievalist of the Seven Kingdoms (with Dr. Hugh Doherty) 2026-03-31 · 33m
Fortune Has Changed My Life 2026-03-24 · 29m
Politics and Murder in the Harem 2026-03-17 · 40m
Movie Mystery: The 2000 Oscars Heist [from Very Special Episodes] 2026-03-14 · 48m
A Terrible Waste 2026-03-10 · 23m
Daughters of the Empress (with Veronica Buckley) 2026-03-03 · 32m
Olympic Glory for a Princess 2026-02-24 · 17m
The Winter Queen 2026-02-17 · 30m
Very Special Episodes: How to Make the Olympics (Without Supernatural Athletic Ability) 2026-02-14 · 24m
A Philosopher's Death 2026-02-10 · 46m
Maria Theresa's Medical Legacy (with Matt Kaplan) 2026-02-03 · 29m
The Real Cyrano 2026-01-27 · 31m
The Disastrous Arctic Balloon Mission of 1897 2026-01-24 · 53m
The Missing Diamond in Case XIII 2026-01-20 · 20m
Antoine Lavoisier's Head 2026-01-13 · 37m
Cruelty and Murder, War and Peace 2026-01-06 · 26m
The Affair of the Poisons 2025-12-30 · 50m
Very Special Episodes: The Cabbage Patch Crisis 2025-12-27 · 50m
The Mitford Communist (With Carla Kaplan) 2025-12-23 · 33m
How Lola Montez Took Down a King 2025-12-16 · 36m
Very Special Episodes: Skylab Is Falling 2025-12-13 · 47m
The Noblewoman Marooned on the Isle of Demons 2025-12-09 · 30m
BONUS: “Remain: A Supernatural Love Story” (with Kal Penn) 2025-12-06 · 33m
The Kennedy Marchioness 2025-12-02 · 29m
Husbands of the Scottish Queen 2025-11-25 · 46m
Sing Me a Song of a Lad That Is Gone 2025-11-18 · 30m
How a Texas Grocery Store Ended the Cold War [Very Special Episodes] 2025-11-15 · 44m
The Example of an Honest Courtesan 2025-11-11 · 49m
Revolutionaries on Cato Street 2025-11-04 · 29m
King James VI's Stolen Crown (with Tracy Borman) 2025-10-28 · 36m
Very Special Episodes: A High School Brawl in the Panama Canal Zone 2025-10-25 · 58m
Lady of the Mercians 2025-10-21 · 27m
Æthelstan and a United England (with David Woodman) 2025-10-14 · 25m
Introducing: SNAFU with Ed Helms - Season Four! 2025-10-08 · 2m
Sentencing His Son to Death 2025-10-07 · 30m
The Princess Onstage at the Moulin Rouge 2025-09-30 · 26m
More Malatesta Murders 2025-09-23 · 26m
Very Special Episodes: When Big Bird Went to China 2025-09-21 · 51m
The First Malatesta Murder 2025-09-16 · 24m
Renaissance Man (with Peter Weller) 2025-09-09 · 31m
An Earl, a Priest, and Martha Ray 2025-09-02 · 28m
The Drillmaster of Valley Forge 2025-08-26 · 39m
Who's Afraid of the Duchess of Newcastle (Part Two) 2025-08-19 · 41m
Very Special Episodes: JFK's Forgotten Summer as a Journalist (with Rob Reiner) 2025-08-16 · 45m
Who's Afraid of the Duchess of Newcastle (Part One) 2025-08-12 · 40m
The Real King Arthur 2025-08-05 · 28m
A Smoking Gun in the Spanish Royal Family 2025-07-29 · 22m
Beethoven's Immortal Beloved, Part 2 2025-07-22 · 34m
Beethoven's Immortal Beloved, Part 1 2025-07-15 · 30m
Pope of Math and Dark Magic 2025-07-08 · 32m
The Thousand-Day Conclave 2025-07-01 · 26m
Teaching People Manners 2025-06-24 · 26m
The Murder of the Last Korean Queen 2025-06-17 · 36m
Count and Cavalry Commander 2025-06-09 · 30m
The "Wild" Nobleman of French Court 2025-06-03 · 27m
A Scandal at Tranby Croft 2025-05-27 · 32m
Vasa, Sunken and Resurrected 2025-05-20 · 32m
The Witches of Belvoir Castle 2025-05-13 · 36m
The Life and Prophecies of Nostradamus 2025-05-06 · 40m
Petronilla of Aquitaine Had Chosen Her Husband 2025-04-29 · 19m
The King's Alphabet 2025-04-22 · 31m
Rival Queens (Part 2) 2025-04-15 · 32m
Rival Queens (Part 1) 2025-04-08 · 30m
More Blood Than You Can Drink 2025-04-01 · 19m
Agnes, Mary, and Mary Magdalene 2025-03-25 · 29m
The Pope's Kidnapped Child 2025-03-18 · 25m
The Coquette Avenged 2025-03-11 · 24m
Will the Real Tsar Dmitri Please Stand Up? (Part 2) 2025-03-04 · 30m
Will the Real Tsar Dmitri Please Stand Up? (Part 1) 2025-02-25 · 35m
Count Orlok's Coat (with Linda Muir) 2025-02-18 · 25m
“No one else in the world but her!” 2025-02-11 · 23m
The Myth and Making of Lawrence of Arabia 2025-02-04 · 33m
The Mistress Makes Her Escape 2025-01-28 · 43m
Survived (From the Archive) 2025-01-21 · 34m
Beheaded II (From the Archive) 2025-01-14 · 33m
Divorced II (From the Archive) 2025-01-07 · 33m
Died (From the Archive) 2024-12-31 · 26m
Beheaded (From the Archive) 2024-12-24 · 26m
Divorced (From the Archive) 2024-12-17 · 26m
Noble Steed 2024-12-10 · 26m
The Maxwell Prison Break from the Tower of London 2024-12-03 · 26m
Dunstan and Eadwig's Notorious Twosome 2024-11-26 · 31m
E.T. and Me 2024-11-21 · 51m
The 'Unruly' British Monarchy (with David Mitchell) 2024-11-19 · 35m
The 500-Year Medici Mystery 2024-11-12 · 34m
The Murder of Licoricia of Winchester 2024-11-05 · 32m
The Impossible Identity of Elegabalus 2024-10-29 · 36m
Gilles de Rais, Baron Serial Killer of Legend 2024-10-22 · 34m
The Notorious Banquet of Chestnuts 2024-10-15 · 28m
Napoleon's Brother Off Exit 7 2024-10-08 · 28m
Miscalculations in the Court of Richard II (with Helen Castor) 2024-10-01 · 44m
Lettice Knollys and her Pride 2024-09-24 · 28m
The Witch of the Ottoman Empire 2024-09-17 · 40m
Henry V (with Dan Jones) 2024-09-10 · 43m
"The Princess with the Sad Eyes" 2024-09-03 · 37m
A Double Murder in Madrid 2024-08-27 · 32m
The Cannibal Count of Pisa 2024-08-20 · 37m
The Noble Revolutionary 2024-08-13 · 29m
The Princess and the Commoner 2024-08-06 · 24m
Prometheus in Paris 2024-07-30 · 35m
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt Among the Royals (with History On Trial's Mira Hayward) 2024-07-23 · 28m
Empires and the Benin Bronzes 2024-07-16 · 33m
The Cabbage King and Queen vs. the Nazis 2024-07-09 · 32m
Live by the Guillotine, Die by the Guillotine 2024-07-02 · 45m
A Rebel Heiress in the French Royal Family 2024-06-25 · 43m
How the Duke of Monmouth Lost His Head 2024-06-18 · 36m
Love and Tragedy at the Taj Mahal 2024-06-11 · 33m
Nell Gwyn's Cinderella Story 2024-06-04 · 27m
The Queen of Romance 2024-05-28 · 41m
The Corpse on Trial 2024-05-21 · 33m
The Female Pharaoh 2024-05-14 · 33m
Death and the King's Favorite (with Benjamin Woolley) 2024-05-07 · 43m
The Nun of Monza, Part 2 2024-04-30 · 43m
The Nun of Monza, Part 1 2024-04-23 · 44m
Lucretia as a Symbol 2024-04-16 · 42m
A Grand Duchess Above the Barber Shop 2024-04-09 · 28m
The Daring Prison Break of the Emperor in Exile 2024-04-02 · 45m
The Dinner Party at the End of the Iranian Monarchy 2024-03-26 · 32m
Odoacer and Theodoric, the Barbarian Kings of the Roman Empire 2024-03-19 · 42m
Napoleon's Coup Within a Coup 2024-03-12 · 39m
How Ada Lovelace Constructed Her Wings 2024-03-05 · 40m
The Plot to Undo Mary Eleanor Bowes, Part 2 2024-02-27 · 40m
The Plot to Undo Mary Eleanor Bowes, Part 1 2024-02-20 · 53m
The Sheika Kept Prisoner (with Heidi Blake) 2024-02-13 · 33m
Introducing: History on Trial 2024-02-09 · 3m
The Venetian Doge Condemned in Memory 2024-02-06 · 40m
Introducing: Very Special Episodes 2024-02-01 · 3m
Pompey and the Prince 2024-01-30 · 33m
The Contradictions and Controversies of Marc de Montifaud 2024-01-23 · 39m
John Dee's Language of the Angels 2024-01-16 · 30m
"Eat Him If You Like" 2024-01-09 · 35m
How Pope Joan Became the High Priestess 2024-01-02 · 47m
William the Conqueror, Christmas King 2023-12-26 · 31m
Napoleon's Josephine (with Jennifer Wright) 2023-12-19 · 49m
The Queen Caught Between Kingdoms 2023-12-12 · 40m
Charlotte Corday, the Angel of Assassination 2023-12-05 · 30m
Caroline Norton Balancing the Scales of Justice 2023-11-28 · 29m
The Princess Who Wrestled for Her Future 2023-11-21 · 39m
The World Inside of Rudolf II's Cabinet of Curiosities 2023-11-14 · 52m
The Tabloid Sacrifices of the Spare, Princess Margaret 2023-11-07 · 37m
Eleanor Cobham, Necromancer Witch 2023-10-31 · 32m
The Thrift-Shop Pope 2023-10-24 · 36m
The Cage of the Ottoman King 2023-10-17 · 41m
The Stories of the Tsar Monk 2023-10-10 · 34m
The Hidden Life of Henry VIII's Fool (With Peter K. Andersson) 2023-10-03 · 33m
The Arsenic Wife (Part 2) 2023-09-26 · 34m
The Arsenic Wife (Part 1) 2023-09-19 · 37m
The Tragic True-Crime Life of Lady Lucan 2023-09-12 · 39m
The Great Hope of Spain 2023-09-05 · 46m
The Eviction of the Texas Princess 2023-08-29 · 30m
Eleanor of Aquitaine Imprisoned 2023-08-22 · 50m
Sadism in the Bastille 2023-08-15 · 35m
The Death and Life of Amy Robsart 2023-08-08 · 43m
Dumas and Napoleon 2023-08-01 · 53m
The Resistance Queen Wilhelmina 2023-07-25 · 46m
Queen Tamar's Revenge 2023-07-18 · 28m
Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I (with Tracy Borman) 2023-07-11 · 32m
Edward VI Among the Women 2023-07-04 · 31m
The Men Who Would Kill the Medici, Part 2 2023-06-27 · 25m
The Men Who Would Kill the Medici, Part 1 2023-06-20 · 38m
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Fighting To Be Seen 2023-06-13 · 27m
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Excellent or Nothing 2023-06-06 · 29m
The Woman Who Wrote Fairy Tales 2023-05-30 · 34m
Through the Eyes of La Castiglione 2023-05-23 · 31m
The Pretty Prime Minister (with Jennifer Wright) 2023-05-16 · 46m
The Party to End Nicolas Fouquet's Career 2023-05-09 · 30m
The Self-Reported Life of the Sham Prince 2023-05-02 · 40m
The Resurrection of the Parking Lot King 2023-04-25 · 35m
Lucy Walter's Lover and Child 2023-04-18 · 43m
"And Historians Will Call Them..." 2023-04-11 · 31m
Pope Pius the Silent 2023-04-04 · 31m
The Isshi Incident 2023-03-28 · 28m
The Pretender Prince 2023-03-21 · 30m
The Mad King's Queen 2023-03-14 · 46m
A Duke Murdered in the Streets of Paris 2023-03-07 · 44m
Lady Seymour Worsley's Worth 2023-02-28 · 36m
The Dollar Princesses 2023-02-21 · 24m
The She-Wolf, Her Husband, and Their Lovers 2023-02-14 · 30m
The Trials of Joanna of Naples 2023-02-07 · 48m
The Crécy Campaign (with Dan Jones) 2023-01-31 · 53m
The Portrait of Dido Belle 2023-01-24 · 38m
...The Gunpowder Treason and Plot 2023-01-17 · 28m
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November... 2023-01-10 · 35m
In No Way Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire 2023-01-03 · 24m
The Queen of England and the Queen of Pirates 2022-12-27 · 36m
The Curse of the Koh-I-Noor 2022-12-20 · 37m
Bonus Episode: Dana Schwartz on Significant Others 2022-12-19 · 37m
The Princess and the Shaman and the Royal House of Norway 2022-12-13 · 21m
The Corpse of Inês de Castro 2022-12-06 · 32m
The Count, the Moose, and Thomas Jefferson 2022-11-29 · 32m
The Secret History of Emperor Justinian 2022-11-22 · 30m
Lady Mary Wroth's Urania 2022-11-15 · 32m
Mansa Musa and the World Map 2022-11-08 · 30m
The Execution of the Roman Virgin 2022-11-01 · 47m
The Princess of Monte Carlo 2022-10-25 · 32m
The Irish Crown Jewels, Separated 2022-10-18 · 36m
The Peasants vs. John of Gaunt (with Helen Carr) 2022-10-11 · 37m
The Bewitched Events at the Tour de Nesle 2022-10-04 · 32m
Libuše and Her City Touching the Stars 2022-09-27 · 23m
Queen Elizabeth II's Greatest Regret 2022-09-20 · 21m
The Love of the Duchess of Devonshire, Part 2 2022-09-13 · 29m
The Love of the Duchess of Devonshire, Part 1 2022-09-06 · 34m
The Legend of the Trung Sisters 2022-08-30 · 26m
The Duke and Adolf Hitler 2022-08-23 · 36m
The White Ship on the English Channel 2022-08-16 · 40m
The Adult Sons of the Hanover Line in Crisis 2022-08-09 · 39m
The Royal Suffragette 2022-08-02 · 45m
Surgery of the First World War, with Lindsey Fitzharris 2022-07-26 · 28m
Ivan the Terrible and his Oldest Son 2022-07-19 · 33m
Queen Victoria, in White, in Black, in White 2022-07-12 · 29m
Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate 2022-07-05 · 47m
The Safavid Princess in Power 2022-06-28 · 39m
The First New Chronicle 2022-06-21 · 21m
The Princess Imprisoned in her Celle 2022-06-14 · 51m
The Argyll Scandal 2022-06-07 · 47m
Jeanne de Clisson, Pirate Terror of France 2022-05-31 · 27m
The Death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 2022-05-24 · 44m
The Life of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 2022-05-17 · 36m
Medieval History with Dan Jones 2022-05-10 · 46m
Ra Ra Rasputin 2022-04-26 · 56m
The Romantics of Villa Diodati 2022-04-12 · 38m
Empress Sisi's Beating Heart 2022-03-29 · 59m
The Princess That England Lost 2022-03-15 · 42m
The Ghost Princes and Richard III 2022-03-01 · 48m
The 'Six' Wives: An Interview with Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow of 'Six' 2022-02-15 · 34m
The Rice Box 2022-02-01 · 30m
The Queen's Goddaughter 2022-01-18 · 32m
Boudica Victoria 2022-01-04 · 29m
A King Legitimate and Illegitimate 2021-12-21 · 28m
Trial By Combat 2021-12-07 · 33m
Murder, Madness, and Eric XIV 2021-11-23 · 35m
The Tiger of Mysore 2021-11-09 · 22m
Darya Saltykova, Serial Killer 2021-10-26 · 23m
The Blood Countess Elizabeth Báthory 2021-10-12 · 29m
The Mistress, the Murderer 2021-09-28 · 30m
The Runaway Duchess 2021-09-14 · 28m
The Schemes of Countess Frances Carr 2021-08-31 · 30m
The Beheading of the Cousin Queen 2021-08-17 · 33m
The Prince's Marriage Test 2021-08-03 · 25m
Lovers and La Maupin 2021-07-20 · 21m
The Later Life of Bloody Mary 2021-07-06 · 32m
The Early Life of Bloody Mary 2021-06-22 · 35m
Queen Christina Removed Her Own Crown 2021-06-08 · 31m
Historical Mythbusting Spectacular! 2021-05-25 · 35m
The Mad Tyrant, Hey Hey! 2021-05-11 · 35m
The Double Agent 2021-04-27 · 26m
In the Shadow of the Great 2021-04-13 · 22m
The First and Last Emperor of America 2021-03-30 · 29m
From Poland with Love 2021-03-16 · 30m
The People's Princess (with Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall) 2021-03-02 · 78m
The Three Husbands of Lucrezia Borgia 2021-02-16 · 30m
Queen Njinga's Cleverness 2021-02-02 · 29m
All Germany Talking of It 2021-01-19 · 28m
Juana La Loca 2021-01-05 · 27m
The Devil and the Duchess de Praslin 2020-12-22 · 24m
Piers Gaveston, the King's Favorite 2020-12-08 · 29m
King George Washington I 2020-11-24 · 35m
Charles the Beloved, the Mad, the Fool 2020-11-10 · 27m
The Beggar Princess of Bristol 2020-10-27 · 27m
What Crown Prince Wilhelm Left Behind 2020-10-13 · 28m
The Blood Sacrifice of the Tang Emperor 2020-09-29 · 27m
Grand Princess Olga of Kiev Takes Her Revenge 2020-09-15 · 24m
How Tycho Brahe Saw the Stars 2020-09-01 · 35m
The Távora Executions 2020-08-18 · 23m
The Red Paint on Leopold II 2020-08-04 · 43m
Queen Caroline Matilda's Personal Doctor 2020-07-21 · 33m
ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: The Tilly Cult 2020-07-07 · 72m
The Bloody Queen of Madagascar 2020-06-23 · 27m
The Crown Prince and His Lover Dead 2020-06-09 · 40m
Survived 2020-05-26 · 33m
Beheaded II 2020-05-12 · 32m
Divorced II 2020-04-28 · 32m
Died 2020-04-14 · 25m
Beheaded 2020-03-31 · 28m
Divorced 2020-03-17 · 25m
The Witch-Hunter King 2020-03-03 · 22m
The Ghosts that Haunted the Female Emperor 2020-02-18 · 22m
Catherine the Great and her Husband the Mediocre 2020-02-04 · 27m
Today We Leave for Mexico 2020-01-21 · 21m
The Swan King Went Mad 2020-01-07 · 24m
The Neck and the Necklace 2019-12-24 · 26m
The Ice Queen 2019-12-10 · 23m
The Wedding Ended in Blood 2019-11-26 · 25m
Let Him Be Hanged There for a Lamb 2019-11-12 · 35m
The Marquise and Her Poisons 2019-10-29 · 32m
The Butler, in the Bedroom, with a Sabre 2019-10-15 · 26m
The Maybe Queen Arbella 2019-10-01 · 19m
What Eye Has Wept for George IV? 2019-09-17 · 24m
Until We Meet Again 2019-09-03 · 22m
Ever Dearest Cousin Nicky 2019-08-20 · 25m
The Butcher Baronet 2019-08-06 · 28m
The Desperate Young King Charles II 2019-07-23 · 30m
The Second Death of Marie Antoinette 2019-07-09 · 23m
Noble Blood - Official Trailer 2019-07-02 · 1m
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