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Noble Blood
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Today: #36 in History on our combined chart.
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| Date | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts |
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| Oct 1 | #35 | #42 | #31 |
About the show
Author Dana Schwartz explores the stories of some of history’s most fascinating royals: the tyrants and the tragic, the murderers and the murdered, and everyone in between. Because when you’re wearing a crown, mistakes often mean blood.
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