Royal Podcasts from the Anglotopia Podcast
Every royal episode of the Anglotopia Podcast in one place - kings and queens, palaces and castles, dynasties and abdications.
The Anglotopia Podcast covers all of British life and history, and over its run it has returned again and again to the monarchy. This page collects the royal episodes in one place - kings and queens, palaces and castles, dynasties and abdications - so you can listen without hunting through the whole back catalogue.
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The Modern Monarchy
The Windsors in living memory - the end of the second Elizabethan age, and the constitutional crisis that nearly unmade the family a century ago.
Special: The Death of a Queen
September 2022
Recorded in the days after Elizabeth II died, this memorial episode walks through how that extraordinary week unfolded, the first days of Charles III’s reign, and the question Britons never quite stop asking - why do so many Americans love the royal family?
Episode 25: Was Edward VIII a Nazi?
July 2024
Author Jane Tippett on Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII - the abdication crisis told largely in the abdicating king’s own words, and what his lost memoir reveals about the man who gave up the throne.
Kings, Queens and Consorts
The royal lives that shaped Britain in ways the history books tend to skip over.
Episode 38: The Queen Who Brought Tea to Britain
October 2024
Historian Sophie Shorland on Catherine of Braganza, the Portuguese princess who married Charles II, was sidelined by his mistresses and his court - and who, along the way, gave Britain its national drink.
The Tudors
No dynasty generates more royal history, or more argument. Four episodes on England’s most dramatic ruling family.
Episode 92: Tudor 101
April 2026
A complete crash course in the dynasty, with Sarah Morris of the Tudor Travel Guide. The ideal starting point if you have ever wanted the Tudors explained properly, start to finish.
Episode 85: The Poles - The Royal Family Henry VIII Tried to Erase
February 2026
Tudor and Plantagenet historian Adam Pennington on the Pole family - Plantagenet claimants to the throne whom Henry VIII pursued to near extinction, and a reminder of how fragile a royal bloodline could be.
Episode 94: The Tudor Podcast Pioneer
May 2026
Heather Teysko of the Renaissance English History Podcast, founder of TudorCon, on obsession, community, and building an audience around 16th-century royal history.
Episode 93: 600 Years in One House
April 2026
Magnus Birch Throckmorton on Coughton Court, the Tudor manor his family has held for six centuries - including through the periods when backing the wrong side in a royal quarrel could cost you everything.
Royal Castles and Houses
Two parts on a single Tudor castle with a very royal, and very bloody, guest list.
Episode 41: The History of Thornbury Castle
November 2024
Resident historian Tony Cherry on Thornbury Castle in Gloucestershire - built by the Duke of Buckingham, seized by Henry VIII after he had the duke executed, and later a home to Mary Tudor.
Episode 42: Thornbury Castle in Person
November 2024
Part two takes you around the castle itself, room by room, in the company of the people who look after it.
All episodes are produced by the Anglotopia Podcast. Playing an episode here streams it directly from the podcast, so it still counts towards the show’s download figures.