Royal Killers

Crime Countdown

Spotify Studios

True Crime, History

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Today’s criminals ruled with bone-crushing fists. Ash and Alaina’s top ten royal killers include a queen who protected her siblings, a king who had his wives beheaded, and vile forms of torture that could only be the result of absolute authority. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Remember when you were six and wanted to be a princess or a queen and we all wanted to live in a castle and wear beautiful dresses and like then get our heads chopped off.
0:13.0	What? Oh, sorry, I got a little too real there.
0:16.0	Today we're covering the top 10 royal killers,
0:19.0	the parts of the stories that never made it into our childhood fantasies.
0:23.2	I would hope not.
0:24.7	These crimes are baffling.
0:26.4	When you're the king, life is good.
0:28.3	There's no need to go and commit murder.
0:30.0	But there's also no one to stop you.
0:31.8	Very true.
0:33.1	Still, as the great singer-lord said,
0:36.2	we'll never be Royals.
0:37.8	But these criminals make us think,
0:39.5	maybe we don't want to be. Hey all you weirdos welcome to the Parcast Original Crime Countdown I'm Ash and I'm
1:01.7	Elena every week will highlight 10 fascinating stories of
1:05.4	history's most engaging and unsettling crimes all picked by the Parcast
1:10.3	research gods. This episode we're counting down the top 10 royal
1:15.0	killers. Royal killers! I love watching royal families. It is fascinating to me.
1:21.4	So the cool thing about this list in case you're all
1:24.0	wondering is that it's you want to know. Because immediately when you hear
1:26.7	Royals you're going to think of the Royal Family like English. Yeah.
1:29.5	This one's global so it's not just English Royals so we get to see and discuss a
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