# The Last King of America - Part 2 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-last-king-of-america-part-2 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-last-king-of-america-part-2.md Podcast: [Queens, Kings, and Dastardly Things](https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838) Published: 2026-01-19T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things/episodes/the-last-king-of-america-part-2 Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6846a16db5ac093b0ca993ec/e/696a27cd98f7a1123eb6cf9e/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/episodes/the-last-king-of-america-part-2 Duration seconds: 1716 ## Resource Revolution, the American divorce, and the true history of the sandwich! Robert and Kate return to the American War of Independence as the story moves beyond declarations and slogans, and into the long, uncertain struggle of what independence actually meant. Joined by a special guest, historian, broadcaster, and Gilded Age expert Julie Montagu, Countess of Sandwich, they explore the years after 1776, when the war dragged on, loyalties fractured, and victory was anything but assured. From Yorktown and the uneasy end of the war, to the daunting task of inventing a new nation from scratch, the episode examines how America decided not to become what it had just escaped. Should George Washington be a king? What should a president look like? And how does a former colony meet its former monarch again — as an equal? The story stretches forward through fragile reconciliation, the burning of Washington in the War of 1812, and the long shadow of the Civil War, before arriving at the Gilded Age — a moment when old aristocracy and new American wealth collide, and the modern “special relationship” begins to take shape. A tale of ambition, miscalculation, reinvention, and the strange intimacy of a political divorce that never quite became a clean break. Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini  Executive Producer: Bella Soames Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Series Producer: Ben Devlin Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini  Content Editor: Joseph Palmer Executive Producer: Bella Soames A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Sign up to Palace Confidential, the FREE royals newsletter from the Mail's top experts. Delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday, it's the s… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/episodes/the-last-king-of-america-part-2/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/queens-kings-and-dastardly-things-6677838/the-last-king-of-america-part-2.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.