Tales of Royals Spares: Drama, Intrigue & Scandal | 82

Even The Royals

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.4 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Behind every royal heir is a “spare” — but while the heir gets the crown, the spare often steals the spotlight. These backup royals may be second in line, but their lives are anything but second-rate. From sibling rivalries and scandalous headlines to unexpected twists of fate, today we’re unpacking all the drama, intrigue, and chaos that come with being royal… but not the royal. Brooke and Aricia are joined by fellow royals-obsessed duo, Amanda Matta (@matta_of_fact) and Meredith Constant (@meredithconstant), co-hosts of the podcast, Off With Their Headlines, to dish on the most fascinating spares in history – and today’s tabloids.

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0:00.0	Wonderry Plus subscribers can listen to Even the Royals early and ad-free right now.
0:04.1	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:07.6	Today's episode has some language the royal family would not want to hear.
0:12.1	Please be advised.
0:20.0	So, Eresha, you famously have two little brothers. Yes. One of which is a dear friend of mine.
0:26.7	That makes one of us. So I'm curious, out of the three of you, who's the most fit to rule a kingdom?
0:33.7	Obviously me. Okay, but what if you couldn't say you? I do want to know who you'd say.
0:38.1	Which of your two brothers?
0:39.5	Ooh.
0:40.4	It's hard because I can see both of them being corrupted.
0:43.6	Oh my God.
0:44.7	Which honestly, I could see myself being corrupted.
0:46.2	I was going to say, yeah.
0:47.2	I don't think I would be, but, oh, I feel, I don't know that I can answer this.
0:52.2	I guess my middle brother.
0:53.9	Okay.
0:54.5	My youngest brother, possibly, but he's such a like ready to start a revolution.
1:03.0	So maybe he would be fit to rule a kingdom because he would just dismantle it from inside.
1:07.1	My middle brother would definitely profit off of it.
1:09.9	So that'll answer that question. Depends on what kind of kingdom you want.
1:12.6	Okay. Well, I mean, obviously the answer is you, but depending on the air on the region, you'd be out of luck as a girl. Yeah, it's bullshit.
1:20.7	Yeah. But in our fantasy world, you're going to be the queen. Good. Which would make your two little brothers the spare and the spare to
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