Scottish Kings' Sex Lives
Dan Snow's History Hit
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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
One thing royal families strive for is the common touch. Whilst some have struggled with it, King James IV and V in the 15th and 16th centuries excelled in it.
It could be said, however, that they took the term ‘common touch’ too literally, as it wasn’t uncommon for them to have sexual liaisons with their subjects.
Who were some of the women they had their many affairs with? And what does this tell us about how liberal life north of the border was back then? Today we’re joined by author Linda Porter, to find out.
This episode was edited by Siobhan Dale, and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.
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| 0:32.8 | The Sex Lives of Scottish Kings. |
| 0:35.8 | It's the episode you've all been clamoring for. |
| 0:38.9 | Everyone is talking about it. |
| 0:41.2 | This is finally your chance to delve in to the sex lives, the private lives of the Stuart |
| 0:47.4 | family. |
| 0:48.4 | This is an episode from our sibling podcast, but Twix the Sheets, it's our smash hit. |
| 0:53.5 | It's a reasonably new podcast in which the sexist or a doctor, Kate Lister, looks at well |
| 0:58.8 | subjects just like this really, actually points out one thing Royal family strive for is |
| 1:02.8 | the common touch. |
| 1:03.8 | Well, the Scottish Royal family touched plenty of commoners in a sexual way as you're about |
| 1:09.6 | to find out. |
| 1:10.6 | She's interviewing the author Linda Porter to find out more parental advisory folks. |
| 1:17.0 | Enjoy. |
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