We went in hard on this one… you’re getting a 2 for 1. A live spectacular on Kaiser Wilhelm II and his mother Empress Frederick AND some musings from us afterwards because we couldn’t get enough of this German/British collab that ended, well… terribly.
Follow Vicky, daughter of Queen Victoria and liberal reformer Prince Albert, as she dives into the absolute viper’s nest that was the 19th Century court of Prussia ruled over by the Hohenzollerns. She’s got a gorgeous, kind husband, representing the hopes of German reformers. But first born Kaiser Wilhelm will fall terribly far from the tree and ruin a lot.
If you get to the end, you will be rewarded with the scandal of how Empress Frederick was possibly buried and the traditional British cure for cancer… smiling at it.
(Sorry that some of the sound goes up and down and that you can occasionally Pip fanning herself dramatically. It was hot)
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Mixed and Produced by Alex Griffiths
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📚 Sources:
An Uncommon Woman, The Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm, Hannah Pakula.
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I, Miranda Carter
Iron Kingdom, Christopher Clark
Blood & Iron, Katja Hoyer
Sverige