Strange Bedfellows: Spouses Swiped Left

Join us this month and explore the love stories of the past.This February we're sharing our chats to various historians and covering all the ways that Royals can come together, be it through arranged marriage, secret engagements or chance meetings. Strange Bedfellows.. On this episode of our Valentines Series, we’re looking at couples, where the couple didn't take to each other and in the world of Royal Tinder, it resulted in a Swipe Left kind of situation. Let's see how these couples tolerated each other's forced presence in their lives: today we talk about Empress Matilda & her hubs Geoffrey of Anjou, Henry VIII & Anna of Cleves, Mary Queen of Scots & her second (but not last) hubs Lord Darnley, and Catherine the Great & Peter III.How do I Loathe Thee? Let Me Count The Ways...We’ve invited historians Chris Riley, Clemmie Bennett, Leah Redmond Chang and Catherine the Great (sorry, Catherine Curzon).Please welcome our experts!Chris writes for The Historians Magazine, please find it here:https://thehistoriansmagazine.com/Please find Clemmie's debut Tudor novel here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-Tree-Clemmie-Bennett-ebook .Please find Leah's book here:https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/young-queens-9781526613424/ in the UK andhttps://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374294489 in the USA.Our favourite book of Catherine's when it comes to the Georgian era; it covers most of the courts of Europe and connects the royal dots in most surprising of ways. P.S. If you love your Romanovs or Marie Antoinette, this is a must!https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Life-in-the-Georgian-Court-Hardback/p/12109/aid/1238 .For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/To book a walking tour with Natalie and talk more about the medieval Royal London, please visithttps://www.getyourguide.com/s/?q=supplier:252243 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.