Noble Blood

Stories of history's most fascinating royals, from tyrants to the tragic AI summary

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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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  1. 2026-11-10 · 39 min · Episode 310

    Diane de Poitiers is famous in French history for the scandalous age gap she had with King Henry II of France, the man with whom she shared an intimate relationship for most of the king's life. But her relationship with…

  2. 2026-11-07 · 35 min

    Wherever Sioux singer D.Z. Ironwing performed in New York, the same woman was waiting afterward to say she loved his voice. Seven years later, his phone rang in a freezing South Dakota trailer. It was her — the first of…

  3. 2026-11-03 · 34 min · Episode 309

    When Puyi was a child, he became Emperor of China. But when China became a republic, he and his court remained in the Forbidden Kingdom, a tiny world of ritual with no power, Dana is joined by historian Paul French to…

  4. 2026-10-27 · 27 min · Episode 308

    Double, double, toil and trouble... Almost everyone has heard of Macbeth, in the context of Shakespeare's famous play. But Macbeth was also a real king, and Shakespeare wrote about him for a very specific reason.…

  5. 2026-10-24 · 53 min

    Plenty of Harry Potter fans love Severus Snape. A few truly worshipped him. In the early 2000s, these fans found each other online and came to believe Harry’s least favorite professor was real. A god in an alternate…

  6. 2026-10-22 · 2 min

    Hi, Noble Blood listeners! We're excited to share with you a sneak peek at iHeartPodcasts' latest release, Midnight Radio! Midnight Radio: Starring five-time Academy Award®-nominee Ethan Hawke as “The Radio Man,”…

  7. 2026-10-20 · 39 min · Episode 307

    When the childless King Henry III's brother died, the heir to the throne became a cousin from the Bourbon dynasty. There was only one problem: he wasn't Catholic. Support Noble Blood:—ORDER 'THE ARCANE ARTS'— Bonus…

  8. 2026-10-13 · 28 min · Episode 306

    How does a queen show her power through her clothing? In her book DRESSING THE QUEEN, historian Kate Strasdin traces two hundred years of the most important garments that a royal can wear. Support Noble Blood:—ORDER…

  9. 2026-10-06 · 32 min · Episode 305

    When she was still a child, Margaret Tudor, sister of the future King Henry VIII, was married to the King of Scotland. But it wouldn't be until her husband's death that Margaret would face the greatest challenges of her…

  10. 2026-09-29 · 33 min · Episode 304

    During Henry VIII's reign, his dynasty was looking shaky: he had only one son, and if Henry died before his heir came of age, the country would be in danger of a civil war. Worse, there were still heirs to the York…

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Oldest episode in feed
07/2019 · over 7 years
Typical length
33 min
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Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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