Noble Blood
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & MildAuthor 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.
A Smoking Gun in the Spanish Royal Family
Jul 29 • 22m
Introducing: Hoax!
Jul 28 • 1m
Beethoven's Immortal Beloved, Part 2
Jul 22 • 33m
Beethoven's Immortal Beloved, Part 1
Jul 15 • 30m
Pope of Math and Dark Magic
Jul 8 • 32m
The Thousand-Day Conclave
Jul 1 • 25m
Teaching People Manners
Jun 24 • 26m
The Murder of the Last Korean Queen
Jun 17 • 35m
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Count and Cavalry Commander
Jun 9 • 30m
The "Wild" Nobleman of French Court
Jun 3 • 26m
A Scandal at Tranby Croft
May 27 • 31m
Vasa, Sunken and Resurrected
May 20 • 31m
Very Special Episodes: North by North Korea
May 17 • 1h 7m
The Witches of Belvoir Castle
May 13 • 36m
The Life and Prophecies of Nostradamus
May 6 • 40m
Petronilla of Aquitaine Had Chosen Her Husband
Apr 29 • 19m
The King's Alphabet
Apr 22 • 31m
Rival Queens (Part 2)
Apr 15 • 32m
Rival Queens (Part 1)
Apr 8 • 30m
More Blood Than You Can Drink
Apr 1 • 19m
Agnes, Mary, and Mary Magdalene
Mar 25 • 28m
The Pope's Kidnapped Child
Mar 18 • 25m
The Coquette Avenged
Mar 11 • 24m
Count Orlok's Coat (with Linda Muir)
Feb 18 • 24m
“No one else in the world but her!”
Feb 11 • 22m
The Myth and Making of Lawrence of Arabia
Feb 4 • 32m
The Mistress Makes Her Escape
Jan 28 • 43m
Survived (From the Archive)
Jan 21 • 34m
Beheaded II (From the Archive)
Jan 14 • 32m
Divorced II (From the Archive)
Jan 7 • 32m
Died (From the Archive)
Dec 31, 2024 • 25m
Beheaded (From the Archive)
Dec 24, 2024 • 25m
Divorced (From the Archive)
Dec 17, 2024 • 26m
Noble Steed
Dec 10, 2024 • 25m
The Maxwell Prison Break from the Tower of London
Dec 3, 2024 • 25m
Dunstan and Eadwig's Notorious Twosome
Nov 26, 2024 • 30m
E.T. and Me
Nov 21, 2024 • 50m
The 'Unruly' British Monarchy (with David Mitchell)
Nov 19, 2024 • 34m
The 500-Year Medici Mystery
Nov 12, 2024 • 33m
The Case of the Missing Novelist
Nov 8, 2024 • 39m
The Murder of Licoricia of Winchester
Nov 5, 2024 • 32m
The Impossible Identity of Elegabalus
Oct 29, 2024 • 36m
The Amazing Journey of the Three Kichis
Oct 25, 2024 • 42m
Gilles de Rais, Baron Serial Killer of Legend
Oct 22, 2024 • 33m
The Notorious Banquet of Chestnuts
Oct 15, 2024 • 27m
Napoleon's Brother Off Exit 7
Oct 8, 2024 • 27m
Miscalculations in the Court of Richard II (with Helen Castor)
Oct 1, 2024 • 43m
Lettice Knollys and her Pride
Sep 24, 2024 • 27m
The Witch of the Ottoman Empire
Sep 17, 2024 • 39m
Henry V (with Dan Jones)
Sep 10, 2024 • 42m
"The Princess with the Sad Eyes"
Sep 3, 2024 • 37m
A Double Murder in Madrid
Aug 27, 2024 • 31m
The Cannibal Count of Pisa
Aug 20, 2024 • 37m
The Noble Revolutionary
Aug 13, 2024 • 28m
The Princess and the Commoner
Aug 6, 2024 • 24m
Prometheus in Paris
Jul 30, 2024 • 34m
Empires and the Benin Bronzes
Jul 16, 2024 • 33m
The Cabbage King and Queen vs. the Nazis
Jul 9, 2024 • 32m
Live by the Guillotine, Die by the Guillotine
Jul 2, 2024 • 44m
A Rebel Heiress in the French Royal Family
Jun 25, 2024 • 42m
How the Duke of Monmouth Lost His Head
Jun 18, 2024 • 35m
Love and Tragedy at the Taj Mahal
Jun 11, 2024 • 32m
Nell Gwyn's Cinderella Story
Jun 4, 2024 • 26m
The Queen of Romance
May 28, 2024 • 40m
The Corpse on Trial
May 21, 2024 • 32m
The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
May 18, 2024 • 1h 0m
The Female Pharaoh
May 14, 2024 • 33m
Death and the King's Favorite (with Benjamin Woolley)
May 7, 2024 • 42m
The Nun of Monza, Part 2
Apr 30, 2024 • 42m
The Nun of Monza, Part 1
Apr 23, 2024 • 43m
Lucretia as a Symbol
Apr 16, 2024 • 42m
A Grand Duchess Above the Barber Shop
Apr 9, 2024 • 27m
Spider-Man's Surreal Adventures on Broadway
Apr 6, 2024 • 1h 4m
The Daring Prison Break of the Emperor in Exile
Apr 2, 2024 • 44m
The Dinner Party at the End of the Iranian Monarchy
Mar 26, 2024 • 32m
Odoacer and Theodoric, the Barbarian Kings of the Roman Empire
Mar 19, 2024 • 41m
Napoleon's Coup Within a Coup
Mar 12, 2024 • 38m
How Ada Lovelace Constructed Her Wings
Mar 5, 2024 • 39m
The Plot to Undo Mary Eleanor Bowes, Part 2
Feb 27, 2024 • 39m
The Plot to Undo Mary Eleanor Bowes, Part 1
Feb 20, 2024 • 53m
The Sheika Kept Prisoner (with Heidi Blake)
Feb 13, 2024 • 33m
Introducing: History on Trial
Feb 9, 2024 • 2m
The Venetian Doge Condemned in Memory
Feb 6, 2024 • 39m
Introducing: Very Special Episodes
Feb 1, 2024 • 2m
Introducing: Consumed from Grim & Mild
Jan 31, 2024 • 2m
Pompey and the Prince
Jan 30, 2024 • 33m
The Contradictions and Controversies of Marc de Montifaud
Jan 23, 2024 • 39m
John Dee's Language of the Angels
Jan 16, 2024 • 29m
"Eat Him If You Like"
Jan 9, 2024 • 35m
How Pope Joan Became the High Priestess
Jan 2, 2024 • 46m
William the Conqueror, Christmas King
Dec 26, 2023 • 30m
Napoleon's Josephine (with Jennifer Wright)
Dec 19, 2023 • 49m
The Queen Caught Between Kingdoms
Dec 12, 2023 • 39m
Charlotte Corday, the Angel of Assassination
Dec 5, 2023 • 30m
Caroline Norton Balancing the Scales of Justice
Nov 28, 2023 • 29m
The Princess Who Wrestled for Her Future
Nov 21, 2023 • 38m
The World Inside of Rudolf II's Cabinet of Curiosities
Nov 14, 2023 • 51m
The Tabloid Sacrifices of the Spare, Princess Margaret
Nov 7, 2023 • 37m
Eleanor Cobham, Necromancer Witch
Oct 31, 2023 • 31m
The Thrift-Shop Pope
Oct 24, 2023 • 35m
Introducing: Season 4 of 13 Days of Halloween
Oct 19, 2023 • 1m
The Cage of the Ottoman King
Oct 17, 2023 • 41m
The Stories of the Tsar Monk
Oct 10, 2023 • 33m
The Hidden Life of Henry VIII's Fool (With Peter K. Andersson)
Oct 3, 2023 • 33m
The Arsenic Wife (Part 2)
Sep 26, 2023 • 33m
The Arsenic Wife (Part 1)
Sep 19, 2023 • 37m
The Tragic True-Crime Life of Lady Lucan
Sep 12, 2023 • 38m
The Great Hope of Spain
Sep 5, 2023 • 45m
The Eviction of the Texas Princess
Aug 29, 2023 • 30m
Eleanor of Aquitaine Imprisoned
Aug 22, 2023 • 49m
Sadism in the Bastille
Aug 15, 2023 • 35m
The Death and Life of Amy Robsart
Aug 8, 2023 • 43m
Dumas and Napoleon
Aug 1, 2023 • 52m
The Resistance Queen Wilhelmina
Jul 25, 2023 • 45m
Queen Tamar's Revenge
Jul 18, 2023 • 27m
Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I (with Tracy Borman)
Jul 11, 2023 • 31m
Edward VI Among the Women
Jul 4, 2023 • 30m
The Men Who Would Kill the Medici, Part 2
Jun 27, 2023 • 25m
The Men Who Would Kill the Medici, Part 1
Jun 20, 2023 • 38m
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Fighting To Be Seen
Jun 13, 2023 • 26m
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Excellent or Nothing
Jun 6, 2023 • 28m
The Woman Who Wrote Fairy Tales
May 30, 2023 • 34m
Through the Eyes of La Castiglione
May 23, 2023 • 30m
The Pretty Prime Minister (with Jennifer Wright)
May 16, 2023 • 46m
The Party to End Nicolas Fouquet's Career
May 9, 2023 • 29m
The Self-Reported Life of the Sham Prince
May 2, 2023 • 39m
The Resurrection of the Parking Lot King
Apr 25, 2023 • 34m
Lucy Walter's Lover and Child
Apr 18, 2023 • 43m
"And Historians Will Call Them..."
Apr 11, 2023 • 30m
Introducing: Haunted Road - Season 4
Apr 5, 2023 • 1m
Pope Pius the Silent
Apr 4, 2023 • 31m
The Isshi Incident
Mar 28, 2023 • 28m
The Pretender Prince
Mar 21, 2023 • 29m
Introducing: Strange Arrivals Season Three
Mar 15, 2023 • 2m
The Mad King's Queen
Mar 14, 2023 • 45m
A Duke Murdered in the Streets of Paris
Mar 7, 2023 • 43m
Lady Seymour Worsley's Worth
Feb 28, 2023 • 36m
The Dollar Princesses
Feb 21, 2023 • 24m
The She-Wolf, Her Husband, and Their Lovers
Feb 14, 2023 • 29m
The Trials of Joanna of Naples
Feb 7, 2023 • 47m
The Crécy Campaign (with Dan Jones)
Jan 31, 2023 • 53m
The Portrait of Dido Belle
Jan 24, 2023 • 38m
...The Gunpowder Treason and Plot
Jan 17, 2023 • 27m
Introducing: Bridgewater Season 2
Jan 13, 2023 • 1m
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November...
Jan 10, 2023 • 35m
In No Way Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire
Jan 3, 2023 • 23m
The Queen of England and the Queen of Pirates
Dec 27, 2022 • 36m
The Curse of the Koh-I-Noor
Dec 20, 2022 • 36m
Bonus Episode: Dana Schwartz on Significant Others
Dec 19, 2022 • 37m
Introducing: 12 Ghosts from Grim & Mild
Dec 16, 2022 • 1m
The Princess and the Shaman and the Royal House of Norway
Dec 13, 2022 • 21m
The Corpse of Inês de Castro
Dec 6, 2022 • 32m
The Count, the Moose, and Thomas Jefferson
Nov 29, 2022 • 31m
The Secret History of Emperor Justinian
Nov 22, 2022 • 30m
Lady Mary Wroth's Urania
Nov 15, 2022 • 31m
Exclusive Listen: Stealing Superman Episode One – Beads of Sweat
Nov 9, 2022 • 48m
Mansa Musa and the World Map
Nov 8, 2022 • 29m
Introducing: Stealing Superman - A New iHeart Original Podcast
Nov 2, 2022 • 2m
The Execution of the Roman Virgin
Nov 1, 2022 • 47m
The Princess of Monte Carlo
Oct 25, 2022 • 31m
Introducing: 13 Days of Halloween Season 3, Devil's Night
Oct 19, 2022 • 2m
The Irish Crown Jewels, Separated
Oct 18, 2022 • 35m
The Peasants vs. John of Gaunt (with Helen Carr)
Oct 11, 2022 • 37m
The Bewitched Events at the Tour de Nesle
Oct 4, 2022 • 31m
Libuše and Her City Touching the Stars
Sep 27, 2022 • 23m
Queen Elizabeth II's Greatest Regret
Sep 20, 2022 • 20m
The Love of the Duchess of Devonshire, Part 2
Sep 13, 2022 • 28m
The Love of the Duchess of Devonshire, Part 1
Sep 6, 2022 • 33m
The Legend of the Trung Sisters
Aug 30, 2022 • 25m
The Duke and Adolf Hitler
Aug 23, 2022 • 36m
The White Ship on the English Channel
Aug 16, 2022 • 39m
The Adult Sons of the Hanover Line in Crisis
Aug 9, 2022 • 39m
The Royal Suffragette
Aug 2, 2022 • 45m
Surgery of the First World War, with Lindsey Fitzharris
Jul 26, 2022 • 27m
Ivan the Terrible and his Oldest Son
Jul 19, 2022 • 33m
Queen Victoria, in White, in Black, in White
Jul 12, 2022 • 28m
Grim & Mild Presents: Season 2 Trailer
Jul 8, 2022 • 1m
Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate
Jul 5, 2022 • 47m
The Safavid Princess in Power
Jun 28, 2022 • 39m
The First New Chronicle
Jun 21, 2022 • 20m
The Princess Imprisoned in her Celle
Jun 14, 2022 • 50m
The Argyll Scandal
Jun 7, 2022 • 46m
Jeanne de Clisson, Pirate Terror of France
May 31, 2022 • 26m
The Death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
May 24, 2022 • 43m
The Life of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
May 17, 2022 • 36m
Medieval History with Dan Jones
May 10, 2022 • 46m
Ra Ra Rasputin
Apr 26, 2022 • 55m
Cleopatra's Companions to the Death
Apr 12, 2022 • 39m
The Romantics of Villa Diodati
Apr 12, 2022 • 38m
Empress Sisi's Beating Heart
Mar 29, 2022 • 58m
The Princess That England Lost
Mar 15, 2022 • 41m
The Ghost Princes and Richard III
Mar 1, 2022 • 47m
The 'Six' Wives: An Interview with Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow of 'Six'
Feb 15, 2022 • 33m
The Rice Box
Feb 1, 2022 • 29m
The Queen's Goddaughter
Jan 18, 2022 • 31m
Introducing: Grim & Mild Presents with Aaron Mahnke
Jan 7, 2022 • 1m
Boudica Victoria
Jan 4, 2022 • 28m
A King Legitimate and Illegitimate
Dec 21, 2021 • 28m
Trial By Combat
Dec 7, 2021 • 33m
Murder, Madness, and Eric XIV
Nov 23, 2021 • 34m
The Tiger of Mysore
Nov 9, 2021 • 21m
Introducing Episode 1 of Dana Schwartz's New Show: Haileywood
Nov 3, 2021 • 51m
Introducing: Haileywood
Oct 27, 2021 • 2m
Darya Saltykova, Serial Killer
Oct 26, 2021 • 22m
The Blood Countess Elizabeth Báthory
Oct 12, 2021 • 28m
The Mistress, the Murderer
Sep 28, 2021 • 29m
The Runaway Duchess
Sep 14, 2021 • 28m
The Schemes of Countess Frances Carr
Aug 31, 2021 • 29m
The Beheading of the Cousin Queen
Aug 17, 2021 • 33m
Introducing: Bridgewater
Aug 14, 2021 • 1m
The Prince's Marriage Test
Aug 3, 2021 • 25m
Lovers and La Maupin
Jul 20, 2021 • 21m
The Later Life of Bloody Mary
Jul 6, 2021 • 32m
The Early Life of Bloody Mary
Jun 22, 2021 • 35m
Queen Christina Removed Her Own Crown
Jun 8, 2021 • 30m
Historical Mythbusting Spectacular!
May 25, 2021 • 35m
The Mad Tyrant, Hey Hey!
May 11, 2021 • 35m
The Double Agent
Apr 27, 2021 • 25m
In the Shadow of the Great
Apr 13, 2021 • 21m
The First and Last Emperor of America
Mar 30, 2021 • 29m
From Poland with Love
Mar 16, 2021 • 30m
The People's Princess (with Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall)
Mar 2, 2021 • 1h 17m
The Three Husbands of Lucrezia Borgia
Feb 16, 2021 • 30m
Queen Njinga's Cleverness
Feb 2, 2021 • 28m
All Germany Talking of It
Jan 19, 2021 • 28m
Juana La Loca
Jan 5, 2021 • 26m
The Devil and the Duchess de Praslin
Dec 22, 2020 • 24m
Piers Gaveston, the King's Favorite
Dec 8, 2020 • 29m
King George Washington I
Nov 24, 2020 • 34m
Charles the Beloved, the Mad, the Fool
Nov 10, 2020 • 27m
The Beggar Princess of Bristol
Oct 27, 2020 • 26m
What Crown Prince Wilhelm Left Behind
Oct 13, 2020 • 28m
The Blood Sacrifice of the Tang Emperor
Sep 29, 2020 • 27m
Grand Princess Olga of Kiev Takes Her Revenge
Sep 15, 2020 • 23m
Introducing: The Hidden Djinn
Sep 3, 2020 • 2m
How Tycho Brahe Saw the Stars
Sep 1, 2020 • 35m
The Távora Executions
Aug 18, 2020 • 23m
The Red Paint on Leopold II
Aug 4, 2020 • 43m
Queen Caroline Matilda's Personal Doctor
Jul 21, 2020 • 32m
ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: The Tilly Cult
Jul 7, 2020 • 1h 11m
The Bloody Queen of Madagascar
Jun 23, 2020 • 27m
The Crown Prince and His Lover Dead
Jun 9, 2020 • 39m
Survived
May 26, 2020 • 33m
Beheaded II
May 12, 2020 • 32m
Divorced II
Apr 28, 2020 • 31m
Died
Apr 14, 2020 • 25m
Beheaded
Mar 31, 2020 • 27m
Divorced
Mar 17, 2020 • 25m
The Witch-Hunter King
Mar 3, 2020 • 22m
The Ghosts that Haunted the Female Emperor
Feb 18, 2020 • 21m
Catherine the Great and her Husband the Mediocre
Feb 4, 2020 • 26m
Today We Leave for Mexico
Jan 21, 2020 • 20m
The Swan King Went Mad
Jan 7, 2020 • 24m
The Neck and the Necklace
Dec 24, 2019 • 25m
The Ice Queen
Dec 10, 2019 • 22m
The Wedding Ended in Blood
Nov 26, 2019 • 25m
Let Him Be Hanged There for a Lamb
Nov 12, 2019 • 34m
The Marquise and Her Poisons
Oct 29, 2019 • 31m
The Butler, in the Bedroom, with a Sabre
Oct 15, 2019 • 26m
The Maybe Queen Arbella
Oct 1, 2019 • 19m
What Eye Has Wept for George IV?
Sep 17, 2019 • 23m
Until We Meet Again
Sep 3, 2019 • 22m
Ever Dearest Cousin Nicky
Aug 20, 2019 • 25m
The Butcher Baronet
Aug 6, 2019 • 27m
The Desperate Young King Charles II
Jul 23, 2019 • 30m
The Second Death of Marie Antoinette
Jul 9, 2019 • 23m
Noble Blood - Official Trailer
Jul 2, 2019 • 1m
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