Queen Charlotte Part 1: Mad About You | 26
Even The Royals
Wondery
4.4 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz is a C-list princess from a tiny province who plans on living a lowkey life. But when the King of England asks for her hand, 17-year-old Charlotte finds herself thrust into the spotlight. Lucky for her, she and George III fall madly in love. But their fairy tale marriage is threatened when George falls prey to a mysterious illness. Shy Charlotte suddenly finds herself having to step up to the big leagues and play a political game – all to protect the love of her life.
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderry Plus subscribers can listen to Even the Royals early and ad-free right now. |
| 0:04.1 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:07.8 | A quick note about our show. |
| 0:09.4 | We do a lot of research for our stories, but we also aren't your boring high school history class, |
| 0:13.8 | so some details and scenes are dramatized. |
| 0:16.7 | And today's episode may contain language that's spicier than a royal bedchamber on wedding night. |
| 0:22.0 | Please be advised. |
| 0:29.8 | Okay, Eresha, we talked about this in our Marine and Twinette series. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.5 | But let's be real, it's a topic that never gets old for us. Okay. I'm talking about |
| 0:39.8 | rom-coms. Oh, and it never will get old for us. It's like, when is someone going to pay us to |
| 0:46.3 | talk about rom-coms? Let me talk rom-coms. That's all I need in this world. I know. So a classic |
| 0:53.1 | rom-com trope is the crazy and love variety, you know, where there's a |
| 0:57.1 | couple with all the odds stacked against them. So I'm talking Julia Roberts and Notting Hill being like, |
| 1:03.0 | I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy. You mean the movie you watched for the first time with |
| 1:08.6 | me last week? Yes. Honestly, it's such an honor to pop your |
| 1:13.1 | nodding hill cherry. I know. I'll never forget. Yep. You never forget your first time. |
| 1:18.8 | Well, today's royal would fit right in with those romantic heroines. Queen Charlotte of |
| 1:24.9 | Mecklenburg Strelitz did some truly next-level stuff for the man she loved, |
| 1:30.2 | like having 15 kids and facing down her husband's enemies when they said he was unfit to rule, |
| 1:38.6 | because Charlotte's husband was King George III of Hamilton fame and problematically known as the Mad King. |
| 1:45.4 | Mad King. |
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