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Noble Blood

Lucy Walter's Lover and Child

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.713.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Before he was King Charles II, Charles was a prince in exile. His relationship with a young woman named Lucy Walter and their subsequent child would have ripple effects through English history.

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0:00.0

On the podcast, Haunted Road, we examine the history of the world's most notoriously haunted

0:05.7

sites and talk to people who've experienced the supernatural there first-hand.

0:10.3

Those ghosts are still wandering those halls waiting for someone to come in and talk to them.

0:14.3

Join me, host Amy Bruney from Television's Kindred Spirits and Ghost Hunters for a tour of

0:19.7

history, true crime, and of course, ghost stories.

0:23.4

Listen to Haunted Road, season four on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

0:27.8

you listen to your favorite shows.

0:30.3

Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of iHeartRadio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky,

0:36.4

listener discretion advised.

0:37.8

Let's begin our story in Paris, 1658.

0:57.2

A woman only 28 years old is on her deathbed, dying of a venereal disease.

1:05.0

An English churchman is with her in her remaining few hours, allowing her to make a general

1:11.0

confession or a Christian prayer of repentance for sins.

1:16.2

An English churchman would know these prayers well.

1:19.8

All mighty and most merciful father, we have aired and strayed from thy ways like lost

1:25.4

sheep.

1:26.4

We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts.

1:32.0

Let's read by an Anglican congregation and mass during worship.

1:37.1

But what did this woman specifically have to confess?

1:42.1

Maybe her cause of death can provide you with a clue, but the extent of the words that

1:47.8

she would utter to the priest went far beyond simply the sins of lust.

1:53.9

She told the churchman that there existed a black box, and inside of it one could find

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