Royal Sibling Rifts
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
History Hit
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Just in case you haven’t heard, a certain prince has released a memoir recently detailing a challenging relationship between him and his brother, the heir to the throne.
But royal sibling rifts are nothing new, in fact we can trace it back centuries… and we’re doing just that on Betwixt the Sheets today.
Kate is joined by Gone Medieval’s Matt Lewis to talk about royal spats in the middle ages and the Tudor period, involving everything from chamber pot pranks to house arrests.
Kate is also joined by biographer Anne Sebba to talk about more recent regal rifts between the Duke of Windsor and King George VI, and of course, a bit about Prince William and Harry (not much, we promise).
*WARNING there are adult words and themes in this episode*
Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Sophie Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my lovely bit Twixters it's me Kate Lister I am here to deliver your fair dues warning |
| 0:06.8 | in case you are of a delicate constitution or in case you've just wandered here by accident |
| 0:11.8 | you don't quite know what we do on this podcast so fair dues everybody I am warning you that |
| 0:17.6 | this is an adult podcast of an adult nature with adults speaking about adult content in an adulty |
| 0:21.9 | way this is going to be a lot of adult content covered actually really what we're dealing with |
| 0:27.8 | today it's probably the swearing more than anything else that might get a few pearls clutched |
| 0:33.2 | and I should emphasise it's me swearing my guests are much more refined and restrained than I am |
| 0:38.7 | I keep trying not to but I keep swearing so therefore we will have more fair dues warning |
| 0:44.3 | so if you're somebody that doesn't like to hear obscene language in your ear I understand that |
| 0:50.6 | I really do and in which case you should just turn this off now and go and do something far more |
| 0:55.1 | wholesome but for the rest of you I am ready if you are because fair dues you have been wanded |
| 1:04.1 | what's the answer is it money or is it magic neither it's something they worked out together |
| 1:11.6 | when they woke up to the fact that they wanted their family life to be fine who doesn't |
| 1:17.2 | Liam Gallagher wants to know for apparently lying about why Oasis split the dazzler brothers |
| 1:27.4 | fought so often while running their joint shoe company during world war two that they both quit |
| 1:33.0 | and separately created new companies Adidas and Pima yes really Britney Spears accused her younger |
| 1:41.2 | sister Jamie Lynn of singing loads of her songs at an award show without her consent in a |
| 1:46.2 | rather revealing social media post what all these stories have in common well they all involve |
| 1:53.6 | a great big dose of sibling rivalry but sibling rivalry doesn't affect just as mere commoners |
| 2:01.0 | in the odd celebrity it also affects those of royal descent as demonstrated by the news recently |
| 2:08.2 | I didn't have heard that a certain print published a certain memoir with certain details about |
| 2:13.3 | his family members in if you've been living under a rock you might not have heard but even if |
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