ROYALTY: Let’s Make Sense of This Sh*t
Royalty: Let’s Make Sense of This Shit The podcast that finally unravels the real, messy, and deeply human world behind the crown. Ever wondered what actually goes on in royal families—beneath the headlines, scandals, jewels, and centuries-old myths? “Royalty: Let’s Make Sense of This Shit” is your backstage pass to the true, untidy story of kings, queens, and the legacy they leave behind. Every episode, host Isabella guides you through:Hidden truths and missing voices—the royals you never learned about in school.Family drama, wild betrayals, and myth-busting history—no detail too small, no scandal too big.Full, unfi...
Ceol of Wessex: Survival, Shadows, and the Fragile Throne
Ceol of Wessex: Survival, Shadows, and the Fragile Throne
Royalty: Let’s Make Sense of This Shit 👑
Blood spilled, power seized—the chaotic heart of early Wessex unfolds.
Ceol’s reign was brief, obscure, and overshadowed. Yet, in the wreckage of Ceawlin’s fall, this shadowy king held the kingdom together—barely. What did it mean to rule a realm on the edge of collapse, where family was both ally and enemy?
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Family feuds, betrayals, and brutal violence that decided kingship in the 590s.The mystery of...
Ceawlin of Wessex: Power, Betrayal, and the Shadowy Birth of an English Kingdom
Ceawlin of Wessex: Power, Betrayal, and the Shadowy Birth of an English Kingdom
Royalty: Let’s Make Sense of This Shit
👑 Mud, blood, and the brutal truth—step into the chaos of 6th-century Britain.
Ceawlin’s world is wild, uncertain, and raw. Warlords rule by the sword. Legends and reality blur in the fog of history. Who really built Wessex—and at what cost?
🔥 In this episode:Epic battles and broken alliances—from Beranburh to Deorham, where ancient cities fall and kingdoms are reimagined.
Cynric of Wessex: The Ghost King Who Built England’s First Dynasty
The mists of post-Roman Britain have swallowed most names—but Cynric, King of Wessex, refuses to vanish quietly. What do we really know about the man who inherited the “first” English dynasty? Step into sixth-century Wessex, where power is fragile, alliances are dangerous, and even the “facts” are up for grabs. As we dig into Cynric’s 26-year reign, we unravel more questions than answers:
Was Cynric truly Cerdic’s son, or just a convenient heir for chroniclers desperate to invent a royal line?
Who were the silent women and “missing” family members shaping a kingdom we’re to...
Cerdic: The Shadowy Founder of Wessex – Untangling the Real Origins of England’s Royal Story
The roots of English royalty are tangled, messy, and anything but certain—and at the heart of it all is Cerdic, the so-called “founder” of Wessex. Was he a Saxon conqueror, a local Briton with a rebranded name, or something in between? Travel back to a Britain still reeling from the collapse of Rome, where kingdoms are claimed with swords, stories, and sheer nerve. Cerdic’s legacy is written in fragments: scraps of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, whispered local legends, and the shifting landscape of archaeology that refuses to settle on a single truth.
How did one man’...
