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Libuše and Her City Touching the Stars
Episode 95
It's a legend, nothing more, about the founding of Prague, but in the story of a woman allegedly from the 8th century, we see the power of myth and t…
3 years, 6 months ago
Queen Elizabeth II's Greatest Regret
Episode 94
The death of Queen Elizabeth is the death of a symbol: after 70 years on the throne, she is the only English monarch many of us have ever known. The …
3 years, 6 months ago
The Love of the Duchess of Devonshire, Part 2
Episode 93
After Georgiana Cavendish gave her husband an heir, she was free to pursue extramarital lovers. But her affair with Charles Grey would leave her forc…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Love of the Duchess of Devonshire, Part 1
Episode 92
When she was seventeen years old, Georgiana Spencer married William Cavendish and became the Duchess of Devonshire. Almost overnight, she charmed eve…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Legend of the Trung Sisters
Episode 91
Two sisters raised an army in 1st century Vietnam against Chinese colonialists. Over the next two thousand years, their story would change and twist.…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Duke and Adolf Hitler
Episode 90
In 1936, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry a twice-divorced American woman named Wallis Simpson. Just a few short months later,…
3 years, 7 months ago
The White Ship on the English Channel
Episode 89
William the Conquerer's youngest son, Henry, had to scheme and fight to become King of England. But his dreams of peacefully united England and Norma…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Adult Sons of the Hanover Line in Crisis
Episode 88
Even though King George III had 13 living children, in 1817, he only had a single legitimate grandchild: Princess Charlotte. And then the unthinkable…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Royal Suffragette
Episode 87
Sophia Duleep Singh was the granddaughter or Ranjit Singh, the 'Lion of Punjab,' but she had been born and raised in England, a goddaughter of Queen …
3 years, 8 months ago
Surgery of the First World War, with Lindsey Fitzharris
Episode 86
"[T]he science of healing stood baffled before the science of destroying." The consequences of World War I weren't limited to deaths on the battlefie…
3 years, 8 months ago