Royal Siblings: Heirs and Spares

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Prince Harry's explosive new memoir is out today and headlines, articles and tweets all weighing in on the rift between the royals are everywhere. In the past warring royal siblings fought it out on the battlefield or in duplicitous schemes of murder, but today it plays out in the media.

Historian of Monarchy Anna Whitelock joins Dan to talk about the dynamics of royal families, the dangers of hereditary power and some of the most important royal sibling rivalries through history including Henry VIII and Arthur, Prince of Wales, Elizabeth I and Mary Tudor and William II and Henry I.

Produced by Mariana Des Forges and James Hickmann. Edited by Dougal Patmore.

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0:04.6	Oh, I can't begin to imagine the pain you suffered from that night.
0:10.0	I want to ask if you want me to be human.
0:12.6	Ready for you, Jos?
0:13.6	I want to know what happened to you.
0:15.2	I'm out of the stops now!
0:16.6	Why did you run?
0:17.6	You thought I was already dead when I found her.
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0:33.4	Hey everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.
0:36.0	We have got a good old-fashioned royal sibling, Rumpus, going on right here in the UK.
0:42.4	In fact, we've got an old Transatlantic Royal Rumpus.
0:44.8	It's sending everyone into paracisms.
0:47.4	The story is, I know you get what I was saying this.
0:50.4	It's nothing new, folks.
0:51.6	In fact, it's the oldest thing in the world.
0:54.8	Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.
0:58.4	Remus killed and his brother's hand.
1:01.8	Menolais and Agamemnon, I could go on.
1:04.0	And for the next little period, I will.
1:07.0	There is something clearly about a hereditary system that can destroy relations between brothers,
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