Royal Mistresses

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The role of the royal mistress may, on the face of it, seem a simple position but in reality, there was a lot more to being a royal mistress than it might seem. Throughout the courts of Europe, the role of the royal mistress was often a semi formalised one and gave these women extraordinary influence and power. Joining Dan to discuss the importance of the mistress is Dr Linda Kiernan Knowles Adjunct Assistant Professor in History at Trinity College Dublin. They look particularly at the courts of Charles II and Louis XIV and how their respective mistresses controlled access to power, took part in political intrigue and caused great controversy both inside and outside of court.

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0:00.0	I've really welcomed Dan to those history. We have got such good subjects on today's
0:04.4	part. We've got brilliant, brilliant historian. It is Dr Linda Keanu Nolz. She's an adjunct
0:09.7	assistant professor in history at Trinity College Dublin. I talked to her from the mighty
0:15.9	city of Drahada on the coast out the mouth of the Boine River, a city so full of history
0:21.6	that we could have done several podcasts about the place where she was in, but we didn't
0:24.6	talk about that at all. We talked about Royal Mistresses. She's looking at early modern
0:28.8	monarchs in England, people like Charles II, but obviously Louis XIV to France looms very
0:33.0	large well, but the Spanish and other Italian courts. She's looking at those monarchs and
0:37.7	their relationship with the mistresses. It turns out there's a lot more to being a Royal
0:41.6	Mistress than you might have thought. It's absolutely extraordinary. In this, I think it's
0:46.7	fair to say wide-ranging and slightly eclectic conversation. We talk about Royal Mistresses.
0:53.0	The access to power and influence of that gave certain women a really, really interesting
0:58.9	discussion. If you want to listen to other podcasts about the early modern period, then trust
1:03.5	me. I've got plenty because I love it. I love the 18th century. I'll tolerate the 17th
1:07.4	century. If you become a subscriber at historyhit.tv, you get access to all the back episodes
1:12.8	of this podcast about the ads. You have a way of a time, you're going to go crazy.
1:16.7	You're going to be like Charles II in a room full of aspiring Royal Mistresses. That's
1:22.5	the nearest you ever going to feel to that experience. I'll go to historyhit.tv, get a month
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1:30.1	you're going to love it. It's the world's best history channel. In the meantime, it gives
1:33.8	me very, very great pleasure to have Linda, Keenan, and Nulls on the podcast talking
1:38.8	about Royal Mistresses. Enjoy.
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