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.
Charlotte Corday, the Angel of Assassination
Dec. 5, 2023
30:00
Caroline Norton Balancing the Scales of Justice
Nov. 28, 2023
29:21
The Princess Who Wrestled for Her Future
Nov. 21, 2023
38:38
The World Inside of Rudolf II's Cabinet of Curiosities
Nov. 14, 2023
51:39
The Tabloid Sacrifices of the Spare, Princess Margaret
Nov. 7, 2023
37:29
Eleanor Cobham, Necromancer Witch
Oct. 31, 2023
31:51
The Thrift-Shop Pope
Oct. 24, 2023
35:43
The Cage of the Ottoman King
Oct. 17, 2023
41:02
The Stories of the Tsar Monk
Oct. 10, 2023
33:37
The Hidden Life of Henry VIII's Fool (With Peter K. Andersson)
Oct. 3, 2023
33:25
The Arsenic Wife (Part 2)
Sept. 26, 2023
33:35
The Arsenic Wife (Part 1)
Sept. 19, 2023
37:23
The Tragic True-Crime Life of Lady Lucan
Sept. 12, 2023
38:47
The Great Hope of Spain
Sept. 5, 2023
45:58
The Eviction of the Texas Princess
Aug. 29, 2023
30:13
Eleanor of Aquitaine Imprisoned
Aug. 22, 2023
49:41
Sadism in the Bastille
Aug. 15, 2023
35:09
The Death and Life of Amy Robsart
Aug. 8, 2023
43:12
Dumas and Napoleon
Aug. 1, 2023
52:41
The Resistance Queen Wilhelmina
July 25, 2023
45:57
Queen Tamar's Revenge
July 18, 2023
27:38
Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I (with Tracy Borman)
July 11, 2023
31:44
Edward VI Among the Women
July 4, 2023
30:34
The Men Who Would Kill the Medici, Part 2
June 27, 2023
25:25
The Men Who Would Kill the Medici, Part 1
June 20, 2023
38:08
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Fighting To Be Seen
June 13, 2023
26:33
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Excellent or Nothing
June 6, 2023
28:35
The Woman Who Wrote Fairy Tales
May 30, 2023
34:12
Through the Eyes of La Castiglione
May 23, 2023
30:43
The Pretty Prime Minister (with Jennifer Wright)
May 16, 2023
46:09
The Party to End Nicolas Fouquet's Career
May 9, 2023
29:57
The Self-Reported Life of the Sham Prince
May 2, 2023
39:47
The Resurrection of the Parking Lot King
April 25, 2023
34:51
Lucy Walter's Lover and Child
April 18, 2023
43:05
"And Historians Will Call Them..."
April 11, 2023
30:32
Pope Pius the Silent
April 4, 2023
31:13
The Isshi Incident
March 28, 2023
28:05
The Pretender Prince
March 21, 2023
29:43
The Mad King's Queen
March 14, 2023
45:36
A Duke Murdered in the Streets of Paris
March 7, 2023
43:43
Lady Seymour Worsley's Worth
Feb. 28, 2023
36:10
The Dollar Princesses
Feb. 21, 2023
24:18
The She-Wolf, Her Husband, and Their Lovers
Feb. 14, 2023
29:36
The Trials of Joanna of Naples
Feb. 7, 2023
47:44
The Crécy Campaign (with Dan Jones)
Jan. 31, 2023
53:02
The Portrait of Dido Belle
Jan. 24, 2023
38:02
...The Gunpowder Treason and Plot
Jan. 17, 2023
27:44
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November...
Jan. 10, 2023
35:27
In No Way Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire
Jan. 3, 2023
23:48
The Queen of England and the Queen of Pirates
Dec. 27, 2022
36:11
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