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Noble Blood

A Smoking Gun in the Spanish Royal Family

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.813.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

King Juan Carlos I had an astonishingly eventful life and ruled as King of Spain for nearly four decades. But a tragic event when he was a teenager maybe have been the defining incident of his life. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.2

If you're looking for another heavy podcast about trauma, the saying it.

0:09.2

This is for the ones who had to survive and still show up as brilliant, loud, soft, and whole.

0:14.9

The unwanted sorority is where black women, fims, and gender expansive survivors of sexual violence,

0:20.2

rewrite the rules on healing,

0:21.7

support, and what happens after. And I'm your host and co-president of this organization,

0:26.6

Dr. Leah Trette. Listen to the unwanted sorority, new episodes every Thursday on the IHeart

0:31.8

Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.9

A quick note before our episode begins, this one includes the death of a child.

0:41.7

And so please feel free to sit this one out if that's a subject you're particularly sensitive to.

0:48.3

Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of IHeart Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky.

0:54.7

Listener discretion advised.

0:58.0

The date was March 26, 1956.

1:03.8

It was Holy Thursday, the day before Good Friday.

1:07.2

A pair of teenage brothers, 114, 118, attended evening mass with their family.

1:15.6

Once they were back home, the brothers went off on their own.

1:19.6

Not long after, a shot was heard throughout the family home.

1:24.6

Their father ran to investigate and discovered the younger brother bleeding from a gunshot

1:31.1

wound to the head. He died in his father's arms. This tragedy was compounded by the fact that the family

1:40.0

at the time was living in exile since their father was the rightful heir to the Spanish throne.

1:47.0

The brother who lived would eventually go on to be known as Juan Carlos I. He was the future king

1:55.5

of Spain. So what happened between those teenage brothers that night in 1956, and what effect did it have on the

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