Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from

Aaron Manky, listener discretion advised.

Hey guys, this is Danish Worts, the host of Noble Blood. One, thank you so much

for listening, but second, this is a very annoying announcement, but I wrote this

book called Anatomy a Love Story, which is about a young woman who wants to be a

surgeon in 1800 Scotland. And I wrote a sequel that is coming out in February

it's called Immortality a Love Story. And I think if you like Noble Blood, you

will really like both of these books, really. My publishers are telling me that

pre-orders are like the most important thing when it comes to book publishing.

So if you are intrigued or interested at all, it would mean so much to me if

you took a look and possibly pre-ordered immortality. But you know, just

thank you so much for listening to the show and sorry to be making a plug.

Back to our podcast.

In 1855, a regal woman summoned her closest advisor to a secret meeting.

She was in her mid-60s once a self-styled Countess in Paris, but now a real

royal of a country in peril. Her advisor was a French lawyer and she needed

him to do something for her. Make the journey north to Hess-Homberd, a small but

sovereign state along the Rhine River. Bring her news of its casino.

She was Princess Maria Caroline of Monaco, usually known as Princess Caroline, not to be

confused with Monaco's current Princess of the same name. It was 1855 and her

tiny country was not the paradise of millionaires that we know it as today.

In fact, Monaco's finances were in dire straits. The casino at Monte Carlo had

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