Speaker 1: Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio
Speaker 1: and Aaron Manky. Listener discretion is advised. If you had
Speaker 1: been alive in the early eighteen hundreds, you almost certainly
Speaker 1: would have been familiar with the cartoons of George Krukshank.
Speaker 1: In fact, if you're alive now, you're probably familiar with them,
Speaker 1: even if you don't know his name. Krukshank became most
Speaker 1: famous doing illustrations for the books of his friend Charles Dickens.
Speaker 1: He was the one who did the first edition of
Speaker 1: Oliver Twist. But Krukshank initially rose to prominence with political
Speaker 1: cartoons he did for the satirical periodical The Scourge. He
Speaker 1: did one cartoon in eighteen sixteen that's particularly interesting, featuring
Speaker 1: Ernest Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland, after he requested an
Speaker 1: increased salary from Parliament and that request was rejected. Ernest
Speaker 1: was the fifth son of King George the Third, and
Speaker 1: you're trying to place him in the grand line of
Speaker 1: British monarchy. He's also the uncle to Queen Victoria. In
Speaker 1: the Crookshank drawing called the Financial Survey of Cumberland, the
Speaker 1: Duke is being thrown out of the Parliament building with
Speaker 1: a firing cannon. The cannonball hits him square in the rear,
Speaker 1: ripping the seat of his pants. A little piece of
Speaker 1: parchment with his request for the six thousand extra pounds
Speaker 1: flutters in the smoke. In the background of the cartoon,
Speaker 1: the Duke's new wife, Frederica, is wearing a skimpy yellow
Speaker 1: dress that struggles to contain her zaftig figure in polite society.
Speaker 1: The new Duchess was of shall we say, questionable morals.
Speaker 1: Ernest was her third husband. Her first husband had died,
Speaker 1: and then she became informally engaged to Ernest's brother, that is,
Speaker 1: until she got pregnant by someone else. She married the
Speaker 1: child's father, only for him to die conveniently just as
Speaker 1: she was set to divorce him and marry Ernest. Rumors
Speaker 1: of husband number two poisoned had already made their way
Speaker 1: to British court. In the cartoon, Frederica gazes lustlily after
Speaker 1: three rather ugly soldiers while saying, ah, who could resist
Speaker 1: lovers such as these? But there's something else interesting in
Speaker 1: the cartoon, visible only if you look closely. You see
Speaker 1: the new Duchess and her three less than attractive lovers
Speaker 1: are standing on a hill, and that hill is painted
Speaker 1: with a brown splotch. From far away, it looks like
Speaker 1: it could be mud. But when you look closer, through
Speaker 1: the brown paint, you can see the remnants of a
Speaker 1: ghostly figure someone Crookshank had drawn and then decided to
Speaker 1: cover over. Some restored versions of the cartoon reveal that
Speaker 1: the literally hidden figure is a man, but a man
Speaker 1: drawn grotesque, with big bulging fish eyes, wearing only a
Speaker 1: night shirt. A red gash marks his slit throat, and
Speaker 1: he holds a razor aloft still dripping blood. Is this
Speaker 1: a raised her that I see before me? The figure
Speaker 1: says in a speech bubble, thou canst not say I
Speaker 1: did it? You see, the Duke of Cumberland's wife wasn't
Speaker 1: the only one with the specter of murder hanging over her.
Speaker 1: The figure is a man named sellis the Duke of
Speaker 1: Cumberland's former valet, who was found to have killed himself,
Speaker 1: but under more than mysterious circumstances. Why did Krookshank decide
Speaker 1: to self center the cartoon? Did he think that the
Speaker 1: implication that the Duke committed murder was a step too far.
Speaker 1: The truth is he was most likely protecting himself from
Speaker 1: a libel lawsuit. The Duke had already proven himself litigious
Speaker 1: against people who suggest that Celis's death was anything other
Speaker 1: than a suicide. Krookshank would have wanted to avoid a
Speaker 1: lengthy and expensive trial and the possible subsequent prison sentence.
Speaker 1: But still, if you look closely at the cartoon, the
Speaker 1: figure is still visible, just barely, an internal finder of
Speaker 1: the gruesome death that occurred one May night at one
Speaker 1: of the most prominent homes in London. The ghost of
Speaker 1: a figure at the heart of a murder mystery that
Speaker 1: to this day still remains unsolved. My name is Danis Schwartz,
Speaker 1: and this is noble blood. It was an unseasonably warm
Speaker 1: evening at the end of May in eighteen ten when Ernest,
Speaker 1: the Duke of Cumberland returned to his residence at Saint
Speaker 1: James Palace after an evening at an opera benefit for
Speaker 1: the Royal Society of Musicians. It had been an overall
Speaker 1: unpleasant evening. The room had felt stuffier than normal, and
Speaker 1: his suits stuck to him in the heat. All in all,
Speaker 1: he was glad to be home to put on his
Speaker 1: night things and retire to his bedroom. All was quiet
Speaker 1: in Saint James's Palace, at least it was until after midnight.
Speaker 1: At twelve thirty a m. The Duke woke two blows
Speaker 1: raining down on his head, two blunt blows, then frenzied cutting. Later,
Speaker 1: the Duke would say that, in the dreamy haze of
Speaker 1: semi sleep, his eyes still struggling to adjust to the darkness,
Speaker 1: he thought a bat had made it into his room,
Speaker 1: a leathery thing with sharp claws that had come down
Speaker 1: through the chimney and mistakenly attacked him. But he only
Speaker 1: thought that for a moment before the third blow. When
Speaker 1: the third blow came down, the Duke was able to
Speaker 1: make out the flash of a metal weapon, illuminated only
Speaker 1: by the single dim lamp in the room. Dazed injured,
Speaker 1: the Duke pulled himself from the bed and tried to
Speaker 1: make it across the room. The assailant slashed him across
Speaker 1: the thighs. The Duke called out to the valet on
Speaker 1: duty that night. Neil, the Duke shouted, Neil, I am murdered,
Speaker 1: and the murderer is in my room, Cornelius. Neil flung
Speaker 1: himself into the room, branding a fire poker, prepared to
Speaker 1: do battle, but the assailant was gone out the opposite door.
Speaker 1: The room was empty but for the Duke of Cumberland,
Speaker 1: still alive but bleeding on the floor, and a few
Speaker 1: feet away, still glinting in the dim light, the would
Speaker 1: be murder weapon, the Duke's old military saber, the saber
Speaker 1: he had used as a colonel commander of the military
Speaker 1: forces defending the southern regions of Great Britain against France.
Speaker 1: Though blood still gushed from the wound on the Duke's head,
Speaker 1: his life had been saved by the fact that the
Speaker 1: assassin seemingly had struck him with the flat side of
Speaker 1: the saber and not its sharpened edge. Neil raised the alarm.
Speaker 1: Within minutes, the entire household was roused, summons that they
Speaker 1: could all get a handle on what exactly had just happened.
Speaker 1: Though everyone was still dazed from sleep, in various states
Speaker 1: of pajamas and whatever formal at fire could have been
Speaker 1: hastily thrown on, it still only took a few minutes
Speaker 1: for the household to realize that someone was missing. Neil
Speaker 1: was actually the Duke's second valet, his first valet was
Speaker 1: a man named Joseph Sellis. Sellus had been off duty
Speaker 1: that night, but as a member of the household, he
Speaker 1: still lived at St. James Palace and should have heard
Speaker 1: Neil's alarm and come running. And yet there was no
Speaker 1: sign of Selus. With the Duke still lying on the floor,
Speaker 1: his thighs and head freshly bandaged, Neil and two other
Speaker 1: men set out to find the missing valet. They knocked
Speaker 1: at his door, no answer, sell Us. Neil said, at
Speaker 1: the door, sell Us, man, come out. This was unlike
Speaker 1: Joseph Sellis. He was famously punctual and disciplined. Other staff
Speaker 1: members found themselves even slightly resenting him for the endless
Speaker 1: hours and devoted service he put in with the Duke,
Speaker 1: often for going his own breaks. Neil opped at the
Speaker 1: door again, sell As, I say, open up. The men
Speaker 1: tried the knob. To their utter surprise, they found it locked.
Speaker 1: Kneel and the two men raced down the hallway through
Speaker 1: a second corridor, down into the kitchen, and then back
Speaker 1: up through another staircase that they ascended in order to
Speaker 1: get into Selus's room through a back entrance. Their breath
Speaker 1: caught in their throats as they tried that back door open.
Speaker 1: Selus was still in bed, but it soon became obvious
Speaker 1: why he had not joined them in assembling with the
Speaker 1: rest of the staff. The body of the valet was
Speaker 1: sitting up in bed, propped up by pillows, as if
Speaker 1: he were moments away from pulling out a book to read,
Speaker 1: but his eyes were flat and colorless. Blood pooled beneath
Speaker 1: him a stain of red vast as a lake that
Speaker 1: blossomed from his neck all the way down his torso.
Speaker 1: Selus's neck was slashed a seemingly self in did wound.
Speaker 1: Sell Us, it appeared, had been the mystery assailant, but
Speaker 1: his assassination attempt had been unsuccessful, and so he ran
Speaker 1: in retreat back into his own bedroom after abandoning the
Speaker 1: bloody murder weapon on the floor of the Duke's chamber.
Speaker 1: Cellus himself had actually been the one to sharpen the
Speaker 1: blade of that saber for the Duke only a few
Speaker 1: days earlier, and so, in shame and disgrace after his
Speaker 1: supposed assassination attempt, knowing he would soon be discovered and arrested,
Speaker 1: or maybe just racked with guilt, sell Us then split
Speaker 1: his own throat at least, that was the story the
Speaker 1: men of the Duke's household slowly put together in their
Speaker 1: minds as they took in the scene, it's gruesome victim
Speaker 1: and the overwhelming stench of warm salt and iron and death.
Speaker 1: But in the ensuing hours, as the sun rose over
Speaker 1: London and the details of the night crystallized as the
Speaker 1: night's fog evaporate, it, servants began to bite their lips
Speaker 1: and look at one another from the corners of their eyes.
Speaker 1: Certain wrong details stuck out, like sharp, poking feathers and
Speaker 1: a goose down pillow, tiny things that left an unpleasant
Speaker 1: prickle in the back of the mind of anyone who
Speaker 1: thought about them for too long. Because even as the
Speaker 1: police ruled Sellus's death a suicide, things just didn't quite
Speaker 1: add up. For one, Sellus's throat hadn't just been split.
Speaker 1: The cut had been so deep that the man was
Speaker 1: nearly decapitated. The white of his spine was visible through
Speaker 1: the gore. The bone had been the only thing to
Speaker 1: stop the blade. The question that lingered on the tongue
Speaker 1: of everyone who had seen the body was what kind
Speaker 1: of man could possibly do that to himself? But then
Speaker 1: the second more dangerous question was the one that had
Speaker 1: to be banished before it was even fully formed, because
Speaker 1: maybe Cellus hadn't taken his own life. Maybe the real
Speaker 1: question was what kind of man had done it to him.
Speaker 1: There were a few details that seemed to indicate foul
Speaker 1: play with Celus's death. For one thing, Celus had been
Speaker 1: left handed, and the physician who examined the body said
Speaker 1: that the wound had been inflicted with the right hand,
Speaker 1: a slash from left to right. The setup of Celus's
Speaker 1: locked room also seemed strange. Celus's hands had no blood
Speaker 1: on them from either his attack on the Duke or
Speaker 1: his own supposed suicide, and a basin of water sat
Speaker 1: on a chest of drawers tinged pink with blood, supposedly
Speaker 1: where Cellus had rinsed his hands. But the chest of
Speaker 1: drawers was on the opposite side of the room as
Speaker 1: the bed, and right next to that basin on the
Speaker 1: chest of drawers was the bloody straight razor that Cellus
Speaker 1: had supposed he used to kill himself, the only weapon
Speaker 1: in the room, And again they were both on the
Speaker 1: opposite side of the room as the bed, so Sellus
Speaker 1: would have had to race into the room locked the
Speaker 1: door behind him, slash his throat, then placed the razor
Speaker 1: down neatly on the dresser, wash his hands, then get
Speaker 1: into bed, all while his head was all but dangling
Speaker 1: from his body. And there was another problem. Sellis had
Speaker 1: no motive. He had a wife and four children. He
Speaker 1: was a highly respected and well liked member of the staff,
Speaker 1: close to the Duke and the entire royal family. He
Speaker 1: was so trusted that he was one of only two
Speaker 1: people to have a key to Queen Charlotte's royal bedchambers,
Speaker 1: the other person being Queen Charlotte herself. And the very
Speaker 1: next day after his death, Sellis was planning on accompanying
Speaker 1: the Duke to Windsor, and Sellus's wife said he had
Speaker 1: been looking forward to it. Sellis had been in the
Speaker 1: Duke's personal employee for five years, and according to his wife, Marianne,
Speaker 1: he enjoyed his job and felt nothing but respect and
Speaker 1: gratitude for the monarchy that permitted his livelihood. Why would
Speaker 1: he want to kill the man that gave him a job.
Speaker 1: But over the course of the inquiry that followed his
Speaker 1: mysterious death, details about Sellus's past began to slowly emerge.
Speaker 1: Joseph Sellis had grown up in Corsica, the tiny French
Speaker 1: island in the Mediterranean, but he had traveled all over
Speaker 1: the world as he worked his way up in his
Speaker 1: career until he finally landed at the prestigious post working
Speaker 1: for the Duke of Cumberland. Before settling in England, he
Speaker 1: had worked in New York City for a man named Mr. Church.
Speaker 1: Sellus was hard working and dedicated and quickly became one
Speaker 1: of Church's most trusted servants. But then Mr Church's desk
Speaker 1: was robbed. The thief had smashed open a chest and
Speaker 1: taken a gold watch, a diamond pen, and a large
Speaker 1: sum of cash. Church rounded up every member of his staff,
Speaker 1: interrogated them individually, and in the end he determined that
Speaker 1: Sellus had been the thief. Not only did Sellus have
Speaker 1: free access to Mr Church's private study, but they also
Speaker 1: found in Cellus's possession a rather incriminating hammer, one that
Speaker 1: looked like it might have been used to smash open
Speaker 1: a certain chest of valuables. Sellis was immediately dismissed from
Speaker 1: his post, but because all the evidence was circumstantial, Mr
Speaker 1: Church didn't take legal action. Church also did something peculiar
Speaker 1: for a man he was firing for thievery. He gave
Speaker 1: Sellus a large severance payment so he'd be able to
Speaker 1: find his footing elsewhere. After that, Sellis made his way
Speaker 1: to England, taking up a post with the Earl of
Speaker 1: mount Edgecombe. It was through his work there that he
Speaker 1: met the Duke of Cumberland and eventually began working for
Speaker 1: the royal family. The fact that Sellus had been a
Speaker 1: one time suspected thief was a major point brought up
Speaker 1: in the inquest trial about his death. After all, what
Speaker 1: is petty thievery but one step away from violent murder.
Speaker 1: One more element of his time in New York working
Speaker 1: for Mr Church also came up. Supposedly, in his time
Speaker 1: in America, Sellus had been a revolutionary, a strong anti monarchist.
Speaker 1: According to a maid named Martha Perkins, who worked for
Speaker 1: Church at the time, Sellis had been heard to say,
Speaker 1: damn the King and all the royal family of England,
Speaker 1: and the man who throws a stone at the king
Speaker 1: deserves a seat in the House of Commons. It's possible
Speaker 1: that those were just the words of a young man
Speaker 1: at the start of his career, caught up in revolutionary fervor,
Speaker 1: or maybe Cellis had been plotting the murder of a
Speaker 1: member of the royal family for years, slowly working himself
Speaker 1: up into their good graces, pretending for all the world
Speaker 1: that he was a supporter of the crown, never letting
Speaker 1: the mask drop, not even for his wife. Also that
Speaker 1: years later he could bungle an assassination attempt of someone
Speaker 1: not actually even in line for the throne, Cornelius. Neil
Speaker 1: had his own theory for why Cellus would have wanted
Speaker 1: to attack the Duke. According to Neil, the entire thing
Speaker 1: had been an attempt by Sellus to frame him Neil,
Speaker 1: for the Duke's murder. At the inquest, Neil testified that
Speaker 1: Cellus had a very malicious disposition. My opinion, Neil said,
Speaker 1: a Cellis meant to murder the Duke, thinking the blame
Speaker 1: should be put on me. I have no more doubt
Speaker 1: he did it to cause me to be suspected than
Speaker 1: I have of my own existence. Sellus did hate Neil.
Speaker 1: Neil was the one in charge of making purchases for
Speaker 1: the household, and Sellus thought that he was swindling the Duke.
Speaker 1: He had written in a letter to the groom, I
Speaker 1: have been told Sir that Mr Neil cheats his Royal
Speaker 1: Highness in everything he buys. The man is as great
Speaker 1: a villain as ever existed. Maybe sell Us wanted to
Speaker 1: checked the Duke so badly from Neil's wickedness that he
Speaker 1: was willing to attack the Duke if it meant Neil
Speaker 1: getting framed. Another theory Celis was a secret Catholic. The
Speaker 1: Duke was a vehement anti Catholic, and so it was
Speaker 1: possible that Sellis might have wanted him dead to avenge
Speaker 1: his faith. Of course, Sellis never gave any indication in
Speaker 1: his life that he was Catholic. He baptized all four
Speaker 1: of his children in the Church of England, but remember
Speaker 1: he was born in Corsica, which seemed highly suspicious. But
Speaker 1: the trial also yielded suspicious details about the Duke and
Speaker 1: his behavior in the aftermath of that eventful night. According
Speaker 1: to the Duke, the assailant had given him seventeen wounds
Speaker 1: and left him in a state of agony for somewhere
Speaker 1: between six weeks to two months. The attack had happened
Speaker 1: at the end of May, and according to the Duke,
Speaker 1: it wasn't until the beginning of August that he was
Speaker 1: able to leave the house. But that wasn't quite true.
Speaker 1: The Duke was out of bed three days after the attack,
Speaker 1: and he had made his first public appearance less than
Speaker 1: two weeks after. Was he exaggerating the wounds to bolster
Speaker 1: public sympathy, or were they far more minor than anyone
Speaker 1: had been led to believe, Maybe because there wasn't an
Speaker 1: attack on him at all. Maybe the wounds were so
Speaker 1: minor because they were the results of the Duke, or
Speaker 1: the Duke and Neil as a team staging a cover up.
Speaker 1: The inquest was exhaustive. The foreman of the jury was
Speaker 1: a man named Francis Place, a well known radical politician
Speaker 1: who hated the monarchy and made his thoughts very clear
Speaker 1: and very public. Even so, the verdict was unanimous. There
Speaker 1: was no proof to furnish any other explanation for that
Speaker 1: night other than that Sellis had committed suicide. The case was,
Speaker 1: as they say, closed, but that didn't mean people stopped talking.
Speaker 1: Two years after Sealus's death, a man named Henry White Jr.
Speaker 1: Was found guilty of libel for implying in his Radical
Speaker 1: Whig publication that Selus's death had been an elaborate cover up.
Speaker 1: He got fifteen months and of five hundred pound fine.
Speaker 1: White believed that Selus had caught the Duke and Cornelius
Speaker 1: Neil in flagrante having a gay affair, and that Cellus
Speaker 1: seemed tempted to go public. His suicide then was really
Speaker 1: a murder to preserve the Duke's reputation. Another theory that
Speaker 1: Celis himself had actually rejected the Duke's advances, and that
Speaker 1: the Duke needed to have him killed out of a
Speaker 1: combination of shame, embarrassment, and the fear of him going
Speaker 1: to the press. Even after the inquest had formally cleared
Speaker 1: the Duke's name, and even after the libel trials continued
Speaker 1: to protect his name, the public still believed deep down
Speaker 1: that somehow the Duke been involved, and most likely with
Speaker 1: something involving some sort of secret homosexual affair. But the
Speaker 1: most damning cloud of the Duke's guilt didn't emerge until
Speaker 1: eighteen twenty seven, nearly two decades after Sellis's death, when
Speaker 1: a man by the name of Captain Charles Jones wrote
Speaker 1: a memoir. Jones had been the Duke's aide DeCamp during
Speaker 1: the Napoleonic Wars, and the two men met again on
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve eighteen fifteen, when the Duke couldn't sleep when
Speaker 1: he lit a fire and asked his friend to sit
Speaker 1: with him. In what Jones described as a gloomy frenzy,
Speaker 1: the Duke told Jones that he believed he had not
Speaker 1: one sincere friend in the whole world. Something dark and
Speaker 1: terrible flashed across the Duke's face then, and despite his
Speaker 1: closeness to the fireplace, Jones felt himself shutter. The Duke
Speaker 1: looked into jones eyes. Swear to me, my dear Jones,
Speaker 1: that you will never devolte. What I'm going to say
Speaker 1: to you from my mind requires relief. It is more
Speaker 1: than I can bear, the Duke said, wanting to unbosom myself,
Speaker 1: but not knowing whom to trust. In his memoir, Jones wrote,
Speaker 1: had I known what was to follow, no power on
Speaker 1: earth could have induced me to have heard the dreadful confession.
Speaker 1: But heard it he did. According to Jones, the Duke
Speaker 1: spoke as follows. You know that miserable business of Selous's,
Speaker 1: that wretch. I was forced to destroy him in self defense.
Speaker 1: The villain threatened to propagate a report, and I had
Speaker 1: no alternative. The Duke had continued to speak, but the
Speaker 1: confession knocked the wind out of Jones, and the Duke's
Speaker 1: words became nothing more than dizzy buzzing, and Jones recorded
Speaker 1: no more of the confession. Of course, the true details
Speaker 1: and reasons for Selus's death will now almost certainly never
Speaker 1: come to light. They're buried with him in an unmarked
Speaker 1: grave somewhere between the bottom of Northumberland Street and the
Speaker 1: gateway to Scotland Yard. Sellus was buried with the Christian
Speaker 1: rituals of a suicide in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: in the utmost secrecy, in order to prevent curious crafts.
Speaker 1: But they say his ghost still haunts Saint James Palace.
Speaker 1: According to some, Cellus sometimes appears in the very room
Speaker 1: where he died, a specter drenched in blood, his throat
Speaker 1: slashed and his jaw unhinged and hanging in a silent, final,
Speaker 1: gruesome screen. People say on the anniversary of his death
Speaker 1: they can hear the sound of a ghostly struggle in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night between two men, and then
Speaker 1: the sound of a blade on flesh, and everyone reports
Speaker 1: the smell, the sickly sweet iron stench of warm blood
Speaker 1: that's carried along with Celus's restless spirit. That's the tale
Speaker 1: of Selus's mysterious death. Noble Blood will be back with
Speaker 1: a new episode in two weeks, but stay tuned after
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Speaker 1: the Duke of Cumberland ends. Ernest Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland,
Speaker 1: it seemed, carried the stain of scandal with him everywhere
Speaker 1: for the rest of his life. There was that terrible
Speaker 1: affair with Selus, then his shocking marriage to a twice
Speaker 1: widowed woman, and then in eighteen thirty another mysterious suicide.
Speaker 1: In the early weeks of that year, gossip papers began
Speaker 1: circulating rumors that the Duke was having an affair with
Speaker 1: a woman named Lady Graves, a mother of fifteen and
Speaker 1: the husband of Lord Graves, the Duke's lord of the
Speaker 1: bedchamber and a household comptroller. That February, Ward Graves left
Speaker 1: his wife a note saying that he never for a
Speaker 1: moment doubted her faithfulness, and then he split his throat.
Speaker 1: There was never any real proof that the Duke was
Speaker 1: a murderer, but that did nothing to diminish his black reputation.
Speaker 1: The Duke's own niece, Princess Charlotte, wrote that he was
Speaker 1: quote at the bottom of all evil. His family and
Speaker 1: the country wanted him out of England, and in eighteen
Speaker 1: thirty seven they finally got their wish. You see, when
Speaker 1: King William the Fourth died, the crown of England and
Speaker 1: its holdings all went to William's niece, Queen Victoria, but
Speaker 1: the tiny Germanic kingdom of Hanover still operated under Salack law,
Speaker 1: which meant that women couldn't be in the line of succession,
Speaker 1: and so the throne went to the next male relative
Speaker 1: in line, the dead king's brother, Ernest Augustus. For all
Speaker 1: of his disgrace as in England, Ernest was a generally
Speaker 1: successful well king of Hanover. He was the first ruler
Speaker 1: of Hanover to actually live there since George the First,
Speaker 1: and he reigned for fourteen years until he died at
Speaker 1: the age of a d There's a statue of King
Speaker 1: Ernest Augustus of Hanover in front of Hanover Central Station,
Speaker 1: with the king on a majestic horse wearing a majestic
Speaker 1: feathered cap. It's inscription reads in German to the father
Speaker 1: of the nation from his loyal people, Noble Blood is
Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio and Aaron Mankey. The
Speaker 1: show was written and hosted by Dana Schwartz and produced
Speaker 1: by Aaron Mankey, Matt Frederick, Alex Williams, and Trevor Young.
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