Introducing: Even the Royals

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, History, Religion

4 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Admit it: you’re obsessed with royal families – watching them, gossiping about them, wanting to be them. It’s the stuff of fantasy. But for real life royals, the crown jewels can be more like shiny handcuffs. There are expectations and rules – and if you break them, the consequences are big, and very public. And there are royal families and wild royal tales from around the world and throughout history that you have never heard before. Even the Royals is a new podcast from Wondery that takes you inside the cloistered world of royal families, past and present, where wealth and status often come at the expense of your freedom – and maybe even your life. In these stories, very human emotions, like jealousy, love, disgust, have the power to reshape the world. This is just a preview of Even the Royals. You can listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or at Wondery.fm/royals_historicalblindness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:05.0	Being a king or queen might seem enticing, but more often than not, it comes at the expense of
0:12.6	everything else, like your freedom, your privacy, and sometimes even your head.
0:19.0	Wondery's new podcast, even the Royals, pulls back the curtain on
0:23.4	royal families, past and present from all over the world to show you the darker side of what it
0:30.0	means to be royalty. Looking at icons like Grace Kelly, Oscar-winning actress turned Princess of Monaco, who the world saw as the
0:40.4	ultimate good girl. She mastered playing a happy wife and mother, but beneath it all, she was
0:46.7	desperately lonely. Grace spent her whole life working toward perfection, and it ultimately cost
0:53.9	her her happiness.
0:55.8	And King Ludwig II from Bavaria, he was only 18 when his father died, leaving the crown
1:03.2	to him and a duty to rule that he never wanted. He refused to lead and used funds from
1:10.5	the royal treasury to further his extreme love
1:14.1	of opera, and this choice eventually cost him his crown and his life. You're about to hear a preview
1:22.5	of Even the Royals. While you're listening, follow Even the Royals on the Wondery app, or wherever you get your
1:30.2	podcasts.
1:32.6	A quick note about our show. We do a lot of research for our stories, but we also aren't your
1:37.4	boring high school history class, so some details and scenes are dramatized. And today's
1:42.1	episode contains swearing that's not exactly suitable for
1:45.2	high society. So please be advised. So Eresha, in the summer of 2023, a life-changing event happened.
1:59.7	Barbenheimer. But more importantly, just Barbie, which I'm happy to report to you.
2:06.6	I finally watched.
2:08.1	Brock, you did?
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