# Queens, Kings, and Dastardly Things

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Official site: https://dailymail.lnk.to/qkdt
Author: Daily Mail
Episodes: 107

## Resource

Expert history with a wicked twist: Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things is the podcast that goes behind palace doors and beyond the balcony smiles, to uncover the stories that the history books have politely skipped. Queens, Kings & Dastardly Things reveals the schemers, lovers, plotters and even the pets who’ve made the British monarchy the world’s longest-running reality show. Hosts, Royal biographers Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams trace how power, passion and paranoia have shaped every crown. There are queens who ruled better than their husbands, and princes who partied harder than their people. We meet saints, sinners and those hovering somewhere in between – from the man formerly known as Prince Andrew to the less-vilified Richard III. Sometimes we get reflective: how monarchy survives scandal, how image-making began long before Instagram, and why royal women have always been the best crisis managers in the room. Other times we’re just here for the gossip: who wore what, who slept where, and who accidentally started a war over breakfast. Think of it as history with its crown slightly askew. If you like your royal stories with equal parts grandeur and chaos, step in…

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## Episodes
- [Rebel Princess: The Patty Hearst Story](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/rebel-princess-the-patty-hearst-story) — 2026-07-11T08:44:40+00:00
- [The Real Citizen Kane: Inside America's Most Scandalous Castle](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-real-citizen-kane-inside-america-s-most-scandalous-castle) — 2026-07-05T23:00:00+00:00
- [America & the Monarchy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/america-the-monarchy) — 2026-06-28T23:00:00+00:00
- [The Royal X-Files](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-royal-x-files) — 2026-06-21T23:00:00+00:00
- [Secrets of a Stately Home](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/secrets-of-a-stately-home) — 2026-06-14T23:00:00+00:00
- [The Death of Queen Cleopatra](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-death-of-queen-cleopatra) — 2026-06-07T23:00:00+00:00
- [Queen Cleopatra: Her Rise to Power](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/queen-cleopatra-her-rise-to-power) — 2026-06-01T04:00:00+00:00
- [The Fall of Roman Britain](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-fall-of-roman-britain) — 2026-05-24T23:00:00+00:00
- [Boudicca: Britain's Warrior Queen](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/boudicca-britain-s-warrior-queen) — 2026-05-17T23:00:00+00:00
- [Julius Caesar's British Invasions](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/julius-caesar-s-british-invasions) — 2026-05-10T23:00:00+00:00
- [Queen Catherine Howard: Vixen or Victim?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/queen-catherine-howard-vixen-or-victim) — 2026-05-03T23:00:00+00:00
- [Queen Elizabeth and Sir David Attenborough: Global Pioneers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/queen-elizabeth-and-sir-david-attenborough-global-pioneers) — 2026-04-26T23:00:00+00:00
- [Queen Elizabeth and Sir David Attenborough: A Royal Friendship](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/queen-elizabeth-and-sir-david-attenborough-a-royal-friendship) — 2026-04-13T12:11:01+00:00
- [Elizabeth II: The Inside Story (Part 2)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/elizabeth-ii-the-inside-story-part-2) — 2026-04-12T23:00:00+00:00
- [Elizabeth II: The Inside Story (Part 1)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/elizabeth-ii-the-inside-story-part-1) — 2026-04-05T23:00:00+00:00
- [Elizabeth I: Love & Death (Part 3)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/elizabeth-i-love-death-part-3) — 2026-03-29T23:00:00+00:00
- [Elizabeth I: Warrior (Part 2)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/elizabeth-i-warrior-part-2) — 2026-03-23T00:00:00+00:00
- [Elizabeth I: Survivor (Part 1)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/elizabeth-i-survivor-part-1) — 2026-03-16T09:53:18+00:00
- [Hamnet: The Truth Behind The Oscar-Winner](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/hamnet-the-truth-behind-the-oscar-winner) — 2026-03-09T00:00:00+00:00
- [The Kennedy Curse - Part 3](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-kennedy-curse-part-3) — 2026-03-02T00:00:00+00:00
- [The Kennedy Curse - Part 2](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-kennedy-curse-part-2) — 2026-02-23T00:00:00+00:00
- [The Kennedy Curse - Part 1](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-kennedy-curse-part-1) — 2026-02-16T00:00:00+00:00
- [Royal Love: The Gaveston Affair](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/royal-love-the-gaveston-affair) — 2026-02-09T00:00:00+00:00
- [The Royal Vampire](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-royal-vampire) — 2026-02-02T00:00:00+00:00
- [The Last King of America - Part 3](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-last-king-of-america-part-3) — 2026-01-26T00:00:00+00:00
- [The Last King of America - Part 2](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-last-king-of-america-part-2) — 2026-01-19T00:00:00+00:00
- [The Last King of America - Part 1](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-last-king-of-america-part-1) — 2026-01-12T00:00:00+00:00
- [Eleanor: England's Lost Queen](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/eleanor-england-s-lost-queen) — 2026-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

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