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.

  • The 'Unruly' British Monarchy (with David Mitchell)

  • The 500-Year Medici Mystery

  • The Case of the Missing Novelist

  • The Murder of Licoricia of Winchester

  • The Impossible Identity of Elegabalus

  • Gilles de Rais, Baron Serial Killer of Legend

  • The Notorious Banquet of Chestnuts

  • Napoleon's Brother Off Exit 7

  • Miscalculations in the Court of Richard II (with Helen Castor)

  • Lettice Knollys and her Pride

  • The Witch of the Ottoman Empire

  • Henry V (with Dan Jones)

  • "The Princess with the Sad Eyes"

  • A Double Murder in Madrid

  • The Cannibal Count of Pisa

  • The Noble Revolutionary

  • The Princess and the Commoner

  • Prometheus in Paris

  • Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt Among the Royals (with History On Trial's Mira Hayward)

  • Empires and the Benin Bronzes

  • The Cabbage King and Queen vs. the Nazis

  • Live by the Guillotine, Die by the Guillotine

  • A Rebel Heiress in the French Royal Family

  • How the Duke of Monmouth Lost His Head

  • Love and Tragedy at the Taj Mahal

  • Nell Gwyn's Cinderella Story

  • The Queen of Romance

  • The Corpse on Trial

  • The Female Pharaoh

  • Death and the King's Favorite (with Benjamin Woolley)

  • The Nun of Monza, Part 2

  • The Nun of Monza, Part 1

  • Lucretia as a Symbol

  • A Grand Duchess Above the Barber Shop

  • The Daring Prison Break of the Emperor in Exile

  • The Dinner Party at the End of the Iranian Monarchy

  • Odoacer and Theodoric, the Barbarian Kings of the Roman Empire

  • Napoleon's Coup Within a Coup

  • How Ada Lovelace Constructed Her Wings

  • The Plot to Undo Mary Eleanor Bowes, Part 2

  • The Plot to Undo Mary Eleanor Bowes, Part 1

  • The Sheika Kept Prisoner (with Heidi Blake)

  • Introducing: History on Trial

  • The Venetian Doge Condemned in Memory

  • Introducing: Very Special Episodes

  • Pompey and the Prince

  • The Contradictions and Controversies of Marc de Montifaud

  • John Dee's Language of the Angels

  • "Eat Him If You Like"

  • How Pope Joan Became the High Priestess

  • William the Conqueror, Christmas King

  • Napoleon's Josephine (with Jennifer Wright)

  • The Queen Caught Between Kingdoms

  • Charlotte Corday, the Angel of Assassination

  • Caroline Norton Balancing the Scales of Justice

  • The Princess Who Wrestled for Her Future

  • The World Inside of Rudolf II's Cabinet of Curiosities

  • The Tabloid Sacrifices of the Spare, Princess Margaret

  • Eleanor Cobham, Necromancer Witch

  • The Thrift-Shop Pope

  • The Cage of the Ottoman King

  • The Stories of the Tsar Monk

  • The Hidden Life of Henry VIII's Fool (With Peter K. Andersson)

  • The Arsenic Wife (Part 2)

  • The Arsenic Wife (Part 1)

  • The Tragic True-Crime Life of Lady Lucan

  • The Great Hope of Spain

  • The Eviction of the Texas Princess

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine Imprisoned

  • Sadism in the Bastille

  • The Death and Life of Amy Robsart

  • Dumas and Napoleon

  • The Resistance Queen Wilhelmina

  • Queen Tamar's Revenge

  • Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I (with Tracy Borman)

  • Edward VI Among the Women

  • The Men Who Would Kill the Medici, Part 2

  • The Men Who Would Kill the Medici, Part 1

  • The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Fighting To Be Seen

  • The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Excellent or Nothing

  • The Woman Who Wrote Fairy Tales

  • Through the Eyes of La Castiglione

  • The Pretty Prime Minister (with Jennifer Wright)

  • The Party to End Nicolas Fouquet's Career

  • The Self-Reported Life of the Sham Prince

  • The Resurrection of the Parking Lot King

  • Lucy Walter's Lover and Child

  • "And Historians Will Call Them..."

  • Pope Pius the Silent

  • The Isshi Incident

  • The Pretender Prince

  • The Mad King's Queen

  • A Duke Murdered in the Streets of Paris

  • Lady Seymour Worsley's Worth

  • The Dollar Princesses

  • The She-Wolf, Her Husband, and Their Lovers

  • The Trials of Joanna of Naples

  • The Crécy Campaign (with Dan Jones)

  • The Portrait of Dido Belle

  • ...The Gunpowder Treason and Plot

  • Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November...

  • In No Way Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire

  • The Queen of England and the Queen of Pirates

  • The Curse of the Koh-I-Noor

  • Bonus Episode: Dana Schwartz on Significant Others

  • The Princess and the Shaman and the Royal House of Norway

  • The Corpse of Inês de Castro

  • The Count, the Moose, and Thomas Jefferson

  • The Secret History of Emperor Justinian

  • Lady Mary Wroth's Urania

  • Mansa Musa and the World Map

  • The Execution of the Roman Virgin

  • The Princess of Monte Carlo

  • The Irish Crown Jewels, Separated

  • The Peasants vs. John of Gaunt (with Helen Carr)

  • The Bewitched Events at the Tour de Nesle

  • Libuše and Her City Touching the Stars

  • Queen Elizabeth II's Greatest Regret

  • The Love of the Duchess of Devonshire, Part 2

  • The Love of the Duchess of Devonshire, Part 1

  • The Legend of the Trung Sisters

  • The Duke and Adolf Hitler

  • The White Ship on the English Channel

  • The Adult Sons of the Hanover Line in Crisis

  • The Royal Suffragette

  • Surgery of the First World War, with Lindsey Fitzharris

  • Ivan the Terrible and his Oldest Son

  • Queen Victoria, in White, in Black, in White

  • Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate

  • The Safavid Princess in Power

  • The First New Chronicle

  • The Princess Imprisoned in her Celle

  • The Argyll Scandal

  • Jeanne de Clisson, Pirate Terror of France

  • The Death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • The Life of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • Medieval History with Dan Jones

  • Ra Ra Rasputin

  • The Romantics of Villa Diodati

  • Empress Sisi's Beating Heart

  • The Princess That England Lost

  • The Ghost Princes and Richard III

  • The 'Six' Wives: An Interview with Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow of 'Six'

  • The Rice Box

  • The Queen's Goddaughter

  • Boudica Victoria

  • A King Legitimate and Illegitimate

  • Trial By Combat

  • Murder, Madness, and Eric XIV

  • The Tiger of Mysore

  • Darya Saltykova, Serial Killer

  • The Blood Countess Elizabeth Báthory

  • The Mistress, the Murderer

  • The Runaway Duchess

  • The Schemes of Countess Frances Carr

  • The Beheading of the Cousin Queen

  • The Prince's Marriage Test

  • Lovers and La Maupin

  • The Later Life of Bloody Mary

  • The Early Life of Bloody Mary

  • Queen Christina Removed Her Own Crown

  • Historical Mythbusting Spectacular!

  • The Mad Tyrant, Hey Hey!

  • The Double Agent

  • In the Shadow of the Great

  • The First and Last Emperor of America

  • From Poland with Love

  • The People's Princess (with Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall)

  • The Three Husbands of Lucrezia Borgia

  • Queen Njinga's Cleverness

  • All Germany Talking of It

  • Juana La Loca

  • The Devil and the Duchess de Praslin

  • Piers Gaveston, the King's Favorite

  • King George Washington I

  • Charles the Beloved, the Mad, the Fool

  • The Beggar Princess of Bristol

  • What Crown Prince Wilhelm Left Behind

  • The Blood Sacrifice of the Tang Emperor

  • Grand Princess Olga of Kiev Takes Her Revenge

  • How Tycho Brahe Saw the Stars

  • The Távora Executions

  • The Red Paint on Leopold II

  • Queen Caroline Matilda's Personal Doctor

  • ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: The Tilly Cult

  • The Bloody Queen of Madagascar

  • The Crown Prince and His Lover Dead

  • Survived

  • Beheaded II

  • Divorced II

  • Died

  • Beheaded

  • Divorced

  • The Witch-Hunter King

  • The Ghosts that Haunted the Female Emperor

  • Catherine the Great and her Husband the Mediocre

  • Today We Leave for Mexico

  • The Swan King Went Mad

  • The Neck and the Necklace

  • The Ice Queen

  • The Wedding Ended in Blood

  • Let Him Be Hanged There for a Lamb

  • The Marquise and Her Poisons

  • The Butler, in the Bedroom, with a Sabre

  • The Maybe Queen Arbella

  • What Eye Has Wept for George IV?

  • Until We Meet Again

  • Ever Dearest Cousin Nicky

  • The Butcher Baronet

  • The Desperate Young King Charles II

  • The Second Death of Marie Antoinette

  • Noble Blood - Official Trailer

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