S18E17: Introducing Trashy Royals | The Affair of the Diamond Necklace

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

Comedy, History

4.5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week, we want to share a little something we've been cooking up here at Hemlock Creatives! Over the course of creating Trashy Divorces, we've come to realize that trashbaggery is a permanent part of the human experience, and few figures in our history has been ostentatiously trashy as any given period's elites. Enter: Trashy Royals, a new podcast dropping every Thursday that explores the enduring truth of all cultures: our betters have always been among our worst.

Please enjoy this Trashy Royals episode, The Affair of the Diamond Necklace, and listen to Trashy Royals wherever you get your podcasts!

05. The Affair of the Diamond Necklace

Unsurprisingly, the French Revolution didn’t happen particularly spontaneously. Years of financial mismanagement, poor crops, massive unemployment, and a swelling population in Paris itself all contributed to a growing dissatisfaction with King Louis XVI and the monarchy in general. The King’s cause wasn’t helped at all by a lingering suspicion that his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, was a profligate spender and an Austrian spy, but Marie Antoinette’s reputation took a calamitous hit in 1785, when an ambitious con artist named Jeanne de la Motte hatched a plan to acquire one of the most expensive jewelry pieces ever crafted.

Playing on the vanity and avarice of one of her lovers, Cardinal Louis de Rohan, Jeanne and her crew succeeded in boosting a piece worth $2 million – and forever ended any goodwill the French public had toward their Queen.

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0:00.0	Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co.
0:05.5	com.uk-Uk.were. That's audible.combe.uk slash wondery. Welcome to trashy divorces. Everybody's favorite, good podcast about bad relationships. We have a bit of a twist this week here in our season 18. My name is
0:23.2	Stacy. Alicia, what is even happening this week? Hey, friends, it's Alicia, and we have been
0:29.0	Stacey and I telling y'all trashy stories now for over four years with a whole set of
0:35.4	trashy royals stories attached, At least we're divorce is concerned
0:39.6	over here on trashy divorces. But this year, just last month, trashy divorces, your creative team
0:45.9	here at Hemlock Creatives have launched a whole new thing, Trashy Royals. We have a whole new podcast.
0:52.3	If you're looking for a little trashy love to add into your
0:55.3	Thursday listening routine, we are here for you. That's exactly it. We got you. This episode today
1:02.8	that we're playing for you, Stacey, you have taken us into a heist of the grandest order right out of
1:09.9	the almost French Revolution. Getting there. Yes, it was actually one of the grandest order right out of the almost French Revolution.
1:11.9	Getting there. Yes, it was actually one of the factors leading to the French Revolution.
1:16.0	But yes, it's a heist. It's got everything. It's a really fun story. The Affair of the Diamond
1:22.2	Necklace. And if you like this one, please head on over to Trashy Royals to hear some more episodes and subscribe.
1:30.0	We got stories for you straight out of ancient Rome all the way up to Plantagenet England so
1:35.5	far. And you folks with littler ears know that this is a lower sodium podcast. We're less salty.
1:42.5	The language is clean. Yeah, good all-around storytelling,
1:46.2	interesting history, and all the echoes and how trashy spider webs have been happening since
1:52.3	the beginning of time. True story. We will be back this Saturday with a dozy of a trashy
1:58.1	divorce. But until then, please enjoy this little ride into trashy
2:02.7	royals. You can subscribe for all the fun. Stacey, we got to go, go, go. We do. Royal style.
2:11.2	Hear ye, hear ye, we're back at the court of the trashy royals. I'm Alicia. Thanks everybody
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