The Crown: Fact or Fiction
Hosted by Kate Williams and Robert Hardman · Daily Mail
4.7from 334 ratings
- 158
- Episodes
- 85
- Transcribed
- 334
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About The Crown: Fact or Fiction
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 into the world of Queens, Kings & Dastardly Things because behind every coronation lies a cover-up, behind every portrait a scandal, and behind every great monarch… a very patient servant wondering how to get the blood out of the carpet.New episodes out every MONDAY, wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Daily Mail
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Oct 2023
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
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Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And for the first time in her tenure at the witness house, she doesn't know what to do. And she becomes a little bit flustered. And there's this great scene. she writes about in her diary, where they all converge on the dining room to have dinner, because that's part of her job. She has to feed them every night. And usually everyone ate at a long table. And something told her that perhaps it wasn't the best idea to have Heinrich Hoffman at the same table as a concentration camp survivor. Hit the photographer right next to a concentration camp. Quite staggering. It didn't cross anyone's mind. Maybe we should put the victims of this dreadful... […]
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- Natalie Livingstone
- Lindsey Fitzharris
- Georgia Duchess of Beaufort
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 147 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 187 ratings
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- 63
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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Kate Williams and Robert Hardman host the show. Published by Daily Mail.
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