Noble Blood
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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Episodes (326)
Anne and Religion Askew
Sep 15, 2026
A Ploughman's 'Uprising' (with Dan Jones)
Sep 8, 2026
"The Apple is Ripe; Pick It Now Or It Will Rot"
Sep 1, 2026
Lord Kitchener Wants You!
Aug 25, 2026
Frances Duff's Jamaican Inheritance
Aug 18, 2026
Children of the Moon [from Very Special Episodes]
Aug 16, 2026
The Surreal Life of Elsa Schiaparelli
Aug 11, 2026
The Tudor Villainess
Aug 4, 2026
The House of Boleyn (with Tracy Borman)
Jul 28, 2026
How a Dog Talks: The Surprising Redemption of Comic Sans [from Very Special Episodes]
Jul 26, 2026
The King for a Day
Jul 21, 2026
Wyatt and Elizabeth in Revolt
Jul 14, 2026
How to Start a Monarchy from Scratch (Part 2)
Jul 7, 2026
Chaotic Philanthropy: Saint Joan of the Golden Arches [from Very Special Episodes]
Jul 5, 2026
How to Start a Monarchy from Scratch (Part 1)
Jun 30, 2026
Countess of the Demimonde
Jun 23, 2026
The Forbidden Star Trek Fanfiction [from Very Special Episodes]
Jun 20, 2026
The Chloroform Baronet (Part 2)
Jun 16, 2026
The Chloroform Baronet (Part 1)
Jun 9, 2026
Napoleon's Forgotten Wife
Jun 2, 2026
The Other James Bond [from Very Special Episodes]
May 30, 2026
When the Kennedeys met the Windsors (with Caroline Hallemann)
May 26, 2026
Kaspar Hauser Came to Town
May 19, 2026
Exit Strategy: They Vanished Into Siberia for Over 40 Years [from Very Special Episodes]
May 16, 2026
The Mind of Émilie du Châtelet (Part 2)
May 12, 2026
The Mind of Émilie du Châtelet (Part 1)
May 5, 2026
The Virgin and Thomas Seymour
Apr 28, 2026
Marilyn, Hamilton + John Wilkes Booth's Statue: NYC History Hiding in Plain Sight
Apr 25, 2026
The Mad Baron in Mongolia (Part 2)
Apr 21, 2026
The Mad Baron in Mongolia (Part 1)
Apr 14, 2026
This Is Not a Drill: Hawaii's Text Message Debacle [from Very Special Episodes]
Apr 11, 2026
The Queen Mother Who Refused to Die
Apr 7, 2026
A Medievalist of the Seven Kingdoms (with Dr. Hugh Doherty)
Mar 31, 2026
Fortune Has Changed My Life
Mar 24, 2026
Politics and Murder in the Harem
Mar 17, 2026
Movie Mystery: The 2000 Oscars Heist [from Very Special Episodes]
Mar 14, 2026
A Terrible Waste
Mar 10, 2026
Daughters of the Empress (with Veronica Buckley)
Mar 3, 2026
Olympic Glory for a Princess
Feb 24, 2026
The Winter Queen
Feb 17, 2026
Very Special Episodes: How to Make the Olympics (Without Supernatural Athletic Ability)
Feb 14, 2026
A Philosopher's Death
Feb 10, 2026
Maria Theresa's Medical Legacy (with Matt Kaplan)
Feb 3, 2026
The Real Cyrano
Jan 27, 2026
The Disastrous Arctic Balloon Mission of 1897
Jan 24, 2026
The Missing Diamond in Case XIII
Jan 20, 2026
Antoine Lavoisier's Head
Jan 13, 2026
Cruelty and Murder, War and Peace
Jan 6, 2026
The Affair of the Poisons
Dec 30, 2025
Very Special Episodes: The Cabbage Patch Crisis
Dec 27, 2025