“No one else in the world but her!”

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Prince Wilhelm of Prussia had fallen in love with Elisa von Radzwill, and wanted to marry her. Unfortunately, even though she was a princess, her rank was low enough that the marriage would actually be illegal. Still, the two clung to the hope they would end up together, fighting royals and bureacrats for years to try to make it happen.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Jay Shetty and my latest episode is with Bill Gates.
0:04.5	This is a world where somebody can have over $100 billion.
0:08.5	What is that?
0:09.8	Social networking, we're still arguing about what the policy should be.
0:14.0	Algorithms reward outrageous things.
0:17.0	These fortunes are almost illegitimate unless in a very smart way given back.
0:22.9	Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.9	Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of IHeart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.
0:36.0	Listener discretion advised.
0:48.9	In January 1821, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia went to the theater, but he wouldn't merely be a member of the audience.
0:52.0	He would actually be performing in a production based on a poem by Thomas
0:56.9	Moore staged in honor of the Grand Princess Alexandra Fedorovna. In front of an audience of
1:04.2	3,000 at the White Hall of the Royal Castle, Prince Wilhelm and a number of other aristocrats were acting in a romance about
1:13.3	the fictional daughter of a 17th century Mughal emperor falling in love with another man instead of the
1:20.3	king she was arranged to marry. Little did Prince Wilhelm know that life would imitate art.
1:28.2	He too would fall for a forbidden partner that very night.
1:33.0	Her name was Princess Eliza von Radswell, or Ragevue,
1:38.3	a Polish noblewoman who happened to be playing a goddess,
1:42.8	heavenly desire, in the production.
1:45.8	Wilhelm was enamored with her performance, noting that it had overcome the audience.
1:52.4	He wrote in his diary, quote,
1:54.6	magical, idealistic, an ethereal touch hung over the whole,
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