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Welcome one, welcome all to the court of the Trashy Royals, where we assemble each week to reveal and revel in the tales of our betters behaving badly.

Holy cats. It's Alicia and Stacey. You are bringing us a big time crossover today. Absolutely

authentic crossover episode. Hello, everyone. My name is Stacey. And I tumble down a

Stuart-era rabbit hole about the audacious murder of a writer named Thomas Overberry and the sex scandal that led to it.

I was stunned, and I hope you will be stunned as well.

I am so excited that you found this.

You know I typically live in Tudor and Plantagenet.

When we get to the stewards, I'm like, meh, but the through lines in this are off the charts. Off the charts.

Off the charts. So without further ado, trash pandas and good nobles, let us anon and go, go, go.

Go, go. Oh, Stacey, I feel like the peerage criminal families of England have really captured you this week.

Yeah, for sure, for sure. So on our Zoom salon with patrons last weekend, Bridget mentioned loving her big catalog of history podcasts,

because when current events are bad, she finds it soothing to recall that people have been through really bad things before,

and they got through them, and they ended up building better things.

So, good reminder.

And in that spirit, I went to Googling for some like really

antique divorce stories. And, you know, to be clear, we're talking annulments in antique period.

That divorce term is kind of loose. Yeah, it was really hard to get a divorce until pretty

recently. I discovered a story that has everything.

Like in the Princess Bride, when the grandpa first shows up with the book and he knows exactly

what kind of magic he's about to drop on the grandkids' head. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like that.

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