The Backstory: Losing your head over royalty
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The Boleyn sisters were red-hot English socialites in the early 1500s. Their rise and fall, one as the mistress of King Henry the Eighth and one as his queen, was shocking even by the standards of the time. Why did a bishop call one of them the “most infamous whore of all”? How did they catch the king? And how did they lose him, along with one of their heads?
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| 0:00.0 | Can you imagine two sisters both becoming the obsession of a king? |
| 0:04.0 | One became the mistress of King Henry VIII and won his queen, |
| 0:08.0 | but it all came crashing down with one of them losing her head. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Patty Steele, the rise and catastrophic fall of Anne and Mary Bolin. |
| 0:17.0 | That's next on the backstory. |
| 0:20.0 | There's a type of soil in Mississippi called Yazoo Clay. |
| 0:24.4 | It's thick, burnt orange, and it's got a reputation. |
| 0:28.5 | It's terrible, terrible dirt. |
| 0:30.1 | Yazoo clay eats everything, so things that get buried there tend to stay buried. |
| 0:35.7 | Until they're not. |
| 0:37.3 | In 2012, construction crews at Mississippi's |
| 0:40.6 | biggest hospital made a shocking discovery. Seven thousand bodies out there or more. All former |
| 0:48.0 | patients of the old state asylum, and nobody knew they were there. It was my family's mystery. |
| 0:54.5 | But in this corner of the South, |
| 0:56.5 | it's not just the soil that keeps secrets. |
| 0:59.0 | Nobody talks about it. |
| 1:01.0 | Nobody has any information. |
| 1:02.5 | When you peel back the layers of Mississippi's Yazoo clay, |
| 1:05.5 | nothing's ever as simple as you think. |
| 1:08.0 | The story is much more complicated and nuanced than that. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm Larison Campbell. Listen to Undriazoo Clay on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:23.5 | I'm Mark Seal, and I'm Nathan King. This is Leave the Gun, Take the Canoli. |
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