1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hi everybody, and 2 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 1: welcome to Who Did What Now? The history podcast that's 3 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 1: not your history class with me your host Katie Charlewood, 4 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:29,639 Speaker 1: history harlot and reader of books. Welcome back everybody, and 5 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: if you are new here, congratulations you've stumbled upon Who 6 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: Did What Now? Where? 7 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:35,520 Speaker 2: My words are. 8 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: As vibrant as a neon sign on a Vegas strip, 9 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: So you might want to brace yourself for a roller 10 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: coaster ride of expressive language that could make even the 11 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: most seasoned linguists blush. If you are allergic to expletives 12 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: and fine colorful language offensive, maybe consider this your chance 13 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: to exit gracefully. But if you're ready to dive headfirst 14 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: into my linguistic whirlpool, buckle up and prepare for a 15 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: verbal adventure that's anything but beige. I had to get 16 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: beige in there. Can you tell a practice that I did? 17 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: I practiced that a lot. Oh. I was like, let's 18 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: go with color puns. But yeah, it's been it's been 19 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 1: an interesting week. If you've been following me on social media, 20 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: you'll know why. If you have not been following me 21 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: on social media, I went viral again and this time 22 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: for something I didn't actually think was gonna do anything. 23 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: I literally thought like maybe a couple thousand people would 24 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: see it. I wasn't expecting literally millions of people to 25 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: see my face, which is weird and daunting because it's 26 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: been a while. I realized recently because I had to 27 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: go through my old videos because it was like, have 28 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: you ever gone viral before? 29 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 3: And it's like, yeah, a couple. 30 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: Of times, I've hit the millions a few times. One 31 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: was discussing Cinderella's prince have the clap. The other was 32 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:07,559 Speaker 1: about Mother Teresa being just an awful person, which got 33 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: removed again. 34 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 2: And I'm way past the. 35 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 1: Like the appeal stage, and I'm like, well, now I 36 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: have to make another video about how awful Mother Treesa is. 37 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: I just won't deliberately call her trash, and I will 38 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: phrase it in a way that shows how awful she 39 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: is without it without getting reported, hopefully Jesus. I just yeah, 40 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: but yes, So I did this video. I did this 41 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: video on the Titanic, and it was about survivors not 42 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: being believed. Because if you know me, if you've been 43 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: listening for a while, then you know that my specific 44 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: area of expertise is misinformation, sensationalism and propaganda, like that's 45 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: this is my my core skill set, you know. And 46 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: so I happen to know this piece of information and 47 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: I was like, well, you know what, I'll just make 48 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: a video on it. Everyone's talking about it. It'll be fine. 49 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: Just maybe some people will see it. It will be nice. 50 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 3: Some people did. 51 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: And then I was like in the news I was 52 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: in I was on the Daily Mirror and I was 53 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: in news Week. 54 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 2: I was on Desert News. I don't even know what 55 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 2: Desert News is, but I'm in it. That's interesting. 56 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: And then I'm also in the Dunnygull News who interviewed me. Actually, 57 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: so when I was in the Dunnygull News, it was 58 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: very funny to me because more people were excited about 59 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: that than they were about me being in global publication 60 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: news week, Like. 61 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 2: I'm in the local paper and people are just like. 62 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, like they're so into it. Was like if I 63 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: was on like an Irish TV show, I think people 64 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: would just lose their minds. Like I could show up 65 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: on the Graham Norton Show and people would be like 66 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: that's fine. I could be sitting weirdly close to Drew 67 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: barrymore just she does like to get off they close 68 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: to people, and I'm not against it. 69 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 2: So I could be there. I could be doing that. 70 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: I could be with Kelly Clarkson singing in a key 71 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: that no one else is familiar with, you know, I 72 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: could be doing that. 73 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 2: I could be doing that. 74 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: But if I were to show up on the Late 75 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: Late Show, people would just their brains. 76 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 2: Would explore out their head, you know. 77 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: I mean, people would just be will into like there's 78 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: something strange and lovely about it. It's just that sort 79 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 1: of local love. It just really really gets you a weepit. 80 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: So that's been an interesting week or so for me. 81 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: It's it has learned to the typical you know nonsense. 82 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: I've had turfs on my back because of the whole 83 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 1: James Barry thing. I've had angry misogynists, Like I had 84 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: so many people being like, why are you making this 85 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: a gender issue. I'm not making it a gender issue. 86 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: It clearly was a gender issue. I am just providing 87 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: you the details of it, including interviews with survivors, Like 88 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: I had all these sources that I had meticulously collected 89 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: over the years, and I had this ready to go, 90 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: you know, and then of course there's a fellows being like, 91 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 1: why are you being so divisive? And it's like, I'm 92 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: not being divisive. You're the one who's being divisive because 93 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: I'm just pointing out an equality and you're getting really 94 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: really mad about it. And that's something I always find 95 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: just very interesting because it's so close to the point, 96 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 1: but it's like they just haven't grasped it yet. It's 97 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: this whole thing of why people have an issue. It's 98 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: usually men, and it's usually men, Like why do they 99 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:06,039 Speaker 1: have an issue with feminism? Like why is feminism seen 100 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: as a dirty word to them? Like why is the 101 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: concept of women having equality or being higher up the 102 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:20,559 Speaker 1: ladder than them? Why is this an issue? Because, let's 103 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: face it, straight white men have been at the top 104 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: of this ladder, and if they believe that the system 105 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:28,679 Speaker 1: is correct and that everything is working and that everything 106 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: is fine, then they shouldn't mind being lowered down on 107 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: the ladder or even sharing the top sport Like, I 108 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: don't see why it's an issue. If everything is fine 109 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: and you believe people are being treated fairly, why do 110 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 1: you have an issue with someone else being at the 111 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: top of the ladder. Is there some way that people 112 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: are being treated when they're not at the top of 113 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: the ladder that you are worried that that's going to 114 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: happen to you. 115 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: Hm hmm. 116 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: But yet it has been a wild week for me, 117 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: and there's just so much going on, Like I'm genuinely 118 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: considering getting an agent because there's so much happening. I mean, 119 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: I've got a literary agent, which is fine because I have. 120 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 2: To get those books. 121 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 3: I have to get those books in. I have to 122 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 3: get the chapters in. 123 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 2: They're not finished yet. 124 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: I have been working on them, so that is progress. 125 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: But I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that your 126 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: jibber jabber in fact me, in fact you. I will, 127 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: But first we've got to get our source on King 128 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: Alfonso and his Age by Sir Charles Petrie, Raising Heirs 129 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: to the Throne in nineteenth century Spain. The Education of 130 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: the Constitutional Monarchy by Carolyn Harris. Magnificent Monarchs by Ian Locke. 131 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: A King with a Mission, The humanitarian deeds of Alfonso 132 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: the Thirteenth during the Great War, King Alfonso the Thirteenth 133 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: of Spain World War One by Anti Ho The Dictatorship 134 00:07:55,960 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: of Primo de Rivera, A political reassessment by Sholomobenemei Arrogant Armies, 135 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: Great military Disasters and the generals behind them by James Perry, 136 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: Alfonso Thirteenth and Politico and El Torono Javier Reno Luzion 137 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: The Manual of Political and Social History of Spain by 138 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: Miuel Martorel Callandario Generald Redno Italia by the Italian Ministry. 139 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 2: This is my best. 140 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: That's nineteen twenty. The Spanish Monarche from nineteen thirty nine 141 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: to nineteen seventy five by jose Pina Gonzalez. Alphonso The 142 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: Playboy King by Sarah Navas. Thank God I took out 143 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: the duck scene by wild will at the Court of 144 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: his Catholic Majesty by. 145 00:08:38,640 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 3: William Mother Collier Born a King. 146 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: Or Passages from the Early History of Alphones of the 147 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 1: thirteenth by Francis and Mary Arnold Forster. Modernizing the Nation 148 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 1: Spain during the reign of Alphons of the thirteenth by 149 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: Javier Moreno Luton. 150 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 3: I use it in comfortably good. 151 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: Then let's begin. Now you may have noticed, or it 152 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: may have surpassed you, is that this is episode sixty nine, 153 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,199 Speaker 1: and so I wanted to talk about something A wee 154 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,959 Speaker 1: bit smutty at the very least, and I happened to 155 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: already know a little bit of information about the Randy 156 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: Royal together a wee Randy Royal series, and I felt 157 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: like sharing information about King Alfonso of Spain, who is 158 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: just one of my favorite Randy Royals, just because it's 159 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: very rare to have a king or a noble or 160 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: any person to have both a private pornographic cinema and 161 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. So I thought, 162 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 1: this is definitely one for the books, or at the 163 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: very least one for the pods, because I mean, you know, 164 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: there's like King Charles the Second, there was Catherine the Great, 165 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: there was people, there were options, but like I very 166 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: rarely talk about men on the podcast, which has been 167 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 1: pointed out to me as well, like you never talk 168 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 1: about men. I was like, I know, it's just most 169 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: of them aren't really that interesting. 170 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 3: So I thought, you know what. 171 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: Two Birds one Stone talk about a man talk about 172 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 1: I'm smitty, talk about of Randy Royal. 173 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 2: It's fun. 174 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: Let's just let's just roll into it. Let's get his 175 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: personal life off, shall we. So Alfonso on the seventeenth 176 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: of May eighteen eighty six. Alfonso was born at the 177 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: Royal Palace of Madrid. He was the son of Alfonso the. 178 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 3: Twelfth of Spain. 179 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: So when he's born, he's born as king, right, So 180 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 1: his dad had died in November eighteen eighty five, December, January, 181 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: March April May. Okay, cool, you know, I was just 182 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: doing a little bit of my counting on my fingers. 183 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,559 Speaker 3: So he was born. 184 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 1: Alfonso Leon, Fernando Maria, Jamie, Acidro Pascual, Antonio de Burbon, 185 00:11:53,559 --> 00:12:00,120 Speaker 1: Habsburgo Lorena. 186 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 2: Did I pronounce that guy? 187 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 1: So I'm sorry, I don't speak Spanish. So yeah, he 188 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 1: is the posthumous son of the previous king of Spain. 189 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: So after he was born, Now, he didn't have a 190 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 1: normal start, right, He didn't have a normal start because. 191 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 2: When he was born, he was. 192 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: Brought naked upon a silver. 193 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 3: Platter to the Spanish Prime minister. 194 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: Listen, I never expect a royal to be typical in 195 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: any way. 196 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 2: I don't expect normality. 197 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: But naked served on a platter to a prime minister 198 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:42,359 Speaker 1: just seems like a weird like a weird thing. Behold, 199 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: the king takes the tray off like there's a baby 200 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: surrounded by salad leaves. Ah, it's like this scene in 201 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 1: The Little Mermaid, were like he lays the club and it's. 202 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,959 Speaker 2: Just oh god, like a suckling pick or something, and 203 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 2: it's really it's so disturbing to me. 204 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 3: He has a baby on a silver platter. 205 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:07,599 Speaker 2: What the fuck. 206 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: Royals were weird, man, That's all I'm saying. So his 207 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:20,079 Speaker 1: mother was Maria Christina of Austria. So just as well 208 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: when I like add her in there, because I feel 209 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: like I forgot her for a minute. So spin as 210 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: you know, pretty Catholic, Pretty Catholic. So five days after 211 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 1: his birth, he gets baptized right now, from the get go, 212 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: this is absolutely extra right. 213 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 3: So he is wrapped in a. 214 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:51,439 Speaker 1: Golden fleece, right, golden fleece, m hm. 215 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 3: And is baptized with water. 216 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: Brought from the River Jordan in Palestine, and it was 217 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: specially brought because it's like the holiest of holy right 218 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: and this is a really serious affair like this, this 219 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: is the shit. So he is just adored because this 220 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 1: is a baby king and everyone. 221 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 2: Fucking loves it. 222 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 3: He's got baptized and shit. 223 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: Oh and not only that, he is like immortalized in 224 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: like a children's story. So there's like the Spanish version 225 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: of the Tooth Fairy, and he's a character in it, 226 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: like they make him a character. But Alfonso, like, I 227 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: don't know if you know much about the Spanish monarchy, 228 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: but it is, mm it is. It is not as 229 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: bad as Cleopatra's. Granted the Potelemis are much worse, but 230 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: still the House of Bourbon, which is to whom he belonged, 231 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: and like the House of Bourbon, it was a branch 232 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: from the family wreath that was the Habsburgs. So there 233 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: was just so much weird incest going on there. You've 234 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: got nieces marie and like uncles and cousins marrying each 235 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: other in just weird connections, so that technically your sister 236 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: was your cousin and shit like that. It's odd, but yeah, 237 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: there's there's typically typically, right, if you go back eleven generations, 238 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: there should be one twenty four people. If you go 239 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: back eleven generations, for Alfonso, it's one hundred and eleven. Like, 240 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, Like that's that's too small, right, 241 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: that's too small, Like that's. 242 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 3: But yeah, he's he's pretty His genetic pool is like. 243 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: It's like a puddle. You know, it's pretty it's pretty concise, 244 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: you know. So that's that's just it's a lot of 245 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: repeats and a lot of weird, weird intermarrying. But anyway, 246 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: he is pretty well educated because he's being trained. 247 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 3: To be a ruler. I mean, he's already the king 248 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 3: of Spain. He just needs, you. 249 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: Know, the education and the tools in which to do that. 250 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: So yeah, he's well educated because he gets this military education. 251 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 1: So he's supposed to have this military vocation and it 252 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 1: strengthens his Spanish nationalism, like that's the whole purpose of it. 253 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: And so he has all of these tutors, which are 254 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: like specific military tutors because he's meant to be connected 255 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: to the military, you know, and he's supposed to be 256 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: a strong leader for it. But he also gets these 257 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: like liberal political teachings and these and these philosophical moral teachings, 258 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: like they really try to round him out, which is 259 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 1: I think really nice for royalty because a lot of 260 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: the time they don't do shit like that. So he's 261 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: pretty well rounded. So Alfonso the boy King, he was 262 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 1: well popular and because you know, he was a child, 263 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,959 Speaker 1: his mother was serving as regent in his stead, so 264 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: Maria Christiana of Austria. She's just she's just keeping an 265 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: eye on things up until his sixteenth birthday, so before 266 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,639 Speaker 1: he actually gets the crown. When he's like twelve, the 267 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 1: Spanish American War happens and they lose colonial rule in 268 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:39,639 Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, and Cuba. So like there's a 269 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 1: few places vying for independence, and then yeah, there's there's 270 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: a ship that implodes in Cuba and it becomes a 271 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 1: whole thing. And I don't know too much about the 272 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: Spanish American War, but that's the gist of its stirring. 273 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 3: So anyway, they lose. 274 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: Colonies and then like it was two years later, Alfonso 275 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: gets really fucking sick. So the eighteen eighty nine to 276 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 1: eighteen ninety pandemic, it fucks him up. 277 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 2: So he is what now. 278 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: Fourteen at this point, and he gets this flu and 279 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: this flu absolutely floors him and it attacks his nervous system, 280 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 1: and they're really fucking worried. They don't know whether he's 281 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: going to be there or not, and. 282 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 3: It just it just screws him over. 283 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: Luckily, he recovers and recovers pretty well considering so two 284 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 1: years later, in nineteen oh two. 285 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 3: He assumes his role is king. So when he does. 286 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: Come of age in May, he takes an oath to 287 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: the Constitution before members of the Cortez and he gets 288 00:18:54,640 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: this just massive party effectively because there are festivities and 289 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: balls and receptions like all over Spain, and there's bull 290 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 1: fights and he receives this military So, yeah, Alphonso was 291 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: king and he needs a queen. So by the time 292 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 1: he's nineteen, he's expected, you know, to marry someone. So 293 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: he goes on this trip to the UK, so I'm 294 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: going to stay visit, and he meets Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, 295 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: who's the granddaughter of Queen Victoria now. 296 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 3: Alfonso's mother, Maria Christina. 297 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 2: She's not too keen on the match. 298 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: Because you know, Queen Victoria's children and grandchildren they all 299 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: have or they all have they are all susceptible to hemophilia, right, 300 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: and so Maria was worried that her grandchildren would also 301 00:19:54,800 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: have hemophilia. So there's like a half fifty fifty percent 302 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: chance that Victoria Eugenie would pass it on. But he 303 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,360 Speaker 1: liked her, he thought she was pretty, she liked him 304 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 1: to and it's a decent match. 305 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 2: She's still royal. She's still within the. 306 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 1: Right part of hims. They're not you know, siblings or cousins, 307 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: which is good, Like it's nice to have some variation 308 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 1: in there. A wee bit, just a wee bit, you know. 309 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: So while they're preparing for the wedding, he gets a 310 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 1: woman pregnant and yeah, yeah, he sires his first illegitimate. 311 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,400 Speaker 2: Child at nineteen. That's right, I said. First, we're not surprised. 312 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:44,880 Speaker 2: They're royals. 313 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: They're always blinking somebody. There was one other week snag, though, 314 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: and that's the Victoria Eugenie. She was Protestant, and of 315 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: course Alfonso's Catholics, so that's the whole thing. And so 316 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: she made it clear that she was willing to convert 317 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 1: to Catholicism, like she was happy to change. It wasn't 318 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,400 Speaker 1: going to be an issue. Maria Christina, she's still trying 319 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: to get him to, you know, marry someone of Habsburg, 320 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: Lorraine or some other like Catholic princess. But when she's 321 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: willing to convert, she's like, okay, cool. And in nineteen 322 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,200 Speaker 1: oh six, she sends an official letter to Beatrice, who's 323 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: Victoria Eugenie's mum, right, because it's always the mothers organizing 324 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: the matches, isn't it. So everything is agreed in Victoria 325 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: Usuenie travels to France and then meets Maria Christina and Alfonso. 326 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: She converts to Catholicism. It's all good. So in May 327 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: of that year, diplomats from like both kingdoms have to 328 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: like officially agree the marriage, and on the thirty first 329 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: of May nineteen oh six, Alfonso and Victoria are married 330 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: the Royal Monastery of San Jeronimo and that's in Madrid. 331 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 1: So while the procession is happening, this anarchist throws a 332 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: bomb from the window, because why would you not want 333 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,239 Speaker 1: to interrupt a wedding day with a good explosion. So 334 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: this is an attempted regicide because not only is there 335 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: just like these guys, but there's also a fuck ton 336 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: of like European royalty just there too. So yeah, this 337 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: dude throws a bomb from the window, and it's an 338 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 1: attempted regicide, but it doesn't harm either the King of 339 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: the Queen. It does, however, kill thirty civilians, so that's 340 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,120 Speaker 1: like bystanders members of the procession. 341 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 3: And then of course on top. 342 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: Of this, you know, it wounds like another one hundred 343 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 1: or so people, so a lot of people really got 344 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: hurt from this. So they're married, hooray, and then in 345 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:52,120 Speaker 1: nineteen oh seven their first child is born, Alfonso. Now, 346 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: over the next seven years they have seven children all together, 347 00:22:58,280 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 1: so Alfonso, then six more. 348 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 3: That's one a year. 349 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: Jeez. 350 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 2: They were at it consistently. 351 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 3: Basically she would have had to have healed and they 352 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:07,400 Speaker 3: would start shagging again. 353 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: Jesus, LaDue, you're you're just going for it. So he 354 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 1: has seven legitimate kids, and then he has at least 355 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: another five illegitimate ones with like a bunch of them, 356 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: a bunch of them, a bunch of them like between 357 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: his lovers. Right, So two of his sons with Eugenie 358 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: Victoria Eugenie, they inherited hemophilia, which is apparently one of 359 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: the reasons why there was like some issues between the couple. 360 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: And this was meant to be a cause of contention 361 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: that he felt it was her fault that they had hemophilia. 362 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 3: But like, imagine that he's blaming her for something. 363 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: He knew it was going to be a possibility because 364 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: it was like a genuine worry that she was going 365 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 1: to be a carrier of heemophilia, So Alfondo Junior effectively 366 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 1: and Gonzalo they both inherited hemophilia, but like the daughters 367 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,879 Speaker 1: didn't and stuff like that. And I think their final son, Juan, 368 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: I know, he didn't, so everybody else apart from these two. 369 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 1: So he's like mad at her and he distanced himself 370 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: from her because of this, which is one way of 371 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 1: putting it. 372 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,120 Speaker 3: But also are we. 373 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:31,160 Speaker 1: Forgetting that he had six illegitimate children, like he had 374 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: one previous to his marriage and then another five during it. 375 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: So you know, I feel like, considering he had already 376 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: gotten someone pregnant, you know, while he was preparing for 377 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: his marriage, while he was looking for, you know, a wife, 378 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 1: he probably was never going to be the most faithful 379 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: of husbands at the best of times. And you know, 380 00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 1: considering his you know, eleven genera back one hundred and 381 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: eleven ancestors, I really don't think he's in a position 382 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: to be insulting anybody's genetics, you know what I mean. 383 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,439 Speaker 1: Sometimes when you're having issues with your spouse, though, you 384 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: do need a good distraction, and Alfonso had one, which 385 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: was World War One. 386 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 3: So because he had. 387 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: Family connections on both sides of World War One, he 388 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 1: decided to keep Spain neutral. And the thing is as well, 389 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 1: like he paid attention to public opinion and because of this, 390 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: it just wasn't worth it for him to be involved, 391 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: Like there was too great a division. It wasn't worth 392 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: it for him. 393 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,400 Speaker 2: But like it's very. 394 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: Interesting the neutrality position that it had during World War 395 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: One because the king he sets up this this office 396 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 1: and the whole purpose of it is to assist prisoners 397 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 1: of war, regardless of the side you're on. So there's 398 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: this diplomatic and military network which is there to help 399 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: prisoners of war. It's transmitting and receiving letters for them, 400 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,919 Speaker 1: helping them with services, and the office is actually in 401 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 1: the Royal Palace itself. 402 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,360 Speaker 2: And another thing he tries. 403 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 1: To do is when he hears of the issues happening 404 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,439 Speaker 1: with the Romanovs, he tries to save Sir Nicholas, the 405 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 1: second in his family, when he hears them being captured. 406 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 1: So as we know that in Britain, when you know 407 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: it was asked, when they were asked for help, they 408 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: turned them down, and other nations did the same. But 409 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 1: Alphonso He's like, no, come here, So he sends telegrams 410 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,360 Speaker 1: to the Bolsheviks, and he's offering, you know, to give 411 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: the Russians to bring the royal family to Spain. So 412 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: he is at one point informed of being executed, but 413 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: he is convinced that it's just like Nicholas the second 414 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 1: in Alexei. He thinks the two of them have just 415 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: been killed. He thought that Alexandra and the you know, 416 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: the four girls, that they had been spared. He didn't 417 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: realize they'd all just been slaughtered. So he was like 418 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: pushing to try and get them there, which is a 419 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: really empathetic thing to do, especially for like a royal leader, 420 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 1: because a lot of the time, like a lot of 421 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 1: it is like stiff up or lip. You don't see 422 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: stuff like this. But on top of this as well, 423 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 1: like when the quote unquote Spanish flu breaks out, which 424 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,479 Speaker 1: m and because there's no like press and bargo in Spain, 425 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,400 Speaker 1: he ends up getting ill again. I mean, he got 426 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: ill during like that other pandemic with the flu, so 427 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: I'm not surprised he got ill this time. So it 428 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 1: gets reported when he gets ill, and it gets reported 429 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 1: when he's you know, recovering. And one of the reasons 430 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: why it's reported in this fashion is because the US 431 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 1: doesn't want to admit that it was them. So the USA, 432 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: the Spanish flu actually originated in their barracks, you know, 433 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,439 Speaker 1: home and abroad. And Spain was the first count to 434 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: report this illness because they didn't want to like mess 435 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 1: with morale and stuff. Well that's the excuse that was given. 436 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: But Spain was like, no, there's there's a big illness 437 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 1: here and we need to curtail it. And so it 438 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 1: gets called, you know, the Spanish flu. It's it's like 439 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: I've joked about it before, calling it fake news, but 440 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,880 Speaker 1: it fucking is. And they did it because they were 441 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 1: mad that a Spain was neutral, even though it was 442 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 1: helping its own POW's right, And they were mad because 443 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:30,679 Speaker 1: they didn't want to have to like explain it was 444 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,400 Speaker 1: them that fuck them, it was them. 445 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 3: It should have been like I don't know the Arkansas flu. 446 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: I can't remember where it's from. I haven't written down somewhere, 447 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: but I don't remember exactly. So World World War One 448 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: is raging on in nineteen seventeen, Alfonso instructs the Spanish 449 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: consul in Jerusalem to help protect Palestinian Jews, like so 450 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: he does these actions for offers of protection all right, 451 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: and so so on top. 452 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 3: Of this, there's this dude. 453 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: He's an official in ti twenties, like a really high official, 454 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 1: and he commits this onslaught against Jews, right, and he 455 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 1: is really high up. He's got supports from the Spanish 456 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: Minister of Foreign Affairs, and he thought he could be 457 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: anti Semitic and all Fonso's watch and he was like, 458 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: fuck this for a game of soldiers. You are being 459 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 1: removed from power, bye bye. Because as far as all 460 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: Fonso was concerned, all of his Spanish subjects should have 461 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: the same level of protection. It's nice when there's a 462 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: leader who isn't anti Semitic. 463 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 2: Isn't it. 464 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 3: That's nice. 465 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 2: Another thing that. 466 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 1: Happened during World War One. So like a year after 467 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: the war breaks out in nineteen fifteen, Royal Films is 468 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: established by Ramon and the Ricardo de Buenos. Because it 469 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: can't be all work and no play for all Fonso, 470 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: oh no, So he uses the Count of Romanos as 471 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: this intermediate, right, and so he is the go between 472 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: between these these brothers and the king, and so Royal 473 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 1: Films is established specifically to create and supply erotic material 474 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 1: to the royal household. So they made porn for the 475 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: king like that was that was the plan. And you 476 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: really have to give it to him, because Alfonso was 477 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: a trendsetter. When you think about it, this is like 478 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: a full century before only fans made custom porno for anybody, right, 479 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: or for everybody really, and the king, that's right, the 480 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 1: King of Spain has a side hustle in making adult films, 481 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: like for his own private consumption, like. 482 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 3: That is that is mad. 483 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 2: He is a. 484 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: Pioneer of pornographic cinema in Spain. And this is where 485 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 1: he gets this this title of the king playboy between 486 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: you know, the many illegitimate children and this you know, 487 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: pornography situation. Now this has led people to suggest that 488 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: he may have had like a sex addiction, which is 489 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: supposedly satiated by you know, the dirty films. So the 490 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: Bourbons in general, they were kind of known for being 491 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 1: in their hanky panky, but they were just bitter hiding it. 492 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: So of Bonzo, he isn't just you know, bankrolling the situation. 493 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 3: He's also providing. 494 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 2: Concepts. 495 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: So he is suggesting ideas for like storylines and plots, 496 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: and he even had a thing for personally casting the 497 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: lead actresses and he is known for having a preference 498 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: for women with enormous breasts, m big bobed babes. 499 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 3: Humanity. Woh, what a weird kink. He likes the bobies. 500 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 3: So he is getting these films right. 501 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: They're made and they are screened sometimes just for Alfonso, 502 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 1: just just for himself. And then sometimes he'd have like 503 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 1: a porno party. He'd invite his pals around and they'd 504 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: all watch it together. 505 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 2: Is that a thing? Is that a thing? 506 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: The men just watch porn together, like just as a 507 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 1: group activity that. 508 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 2: You all share. 509 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 3: Oh okay, So. 510 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 1: There's a bunch of these films made and they're like 511 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: in some of the storylines are classic and definitely rooted 512 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: in Catholicism, like there's. 513 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 3: A good view that involved priests and such. 514 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: But yeah, he seemed to have he seemed to have 515 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 1: a preference, you know. So all in all, said films 516 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: were made, but only three have survived. There's The Confessor, 517 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 1: which is about a priest shagging one of his parishioners. 518 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 1: The Minister is about a woman, you know, offering to 519 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: let a priest plunder her cave of wonders if she 520 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 1: defends her husband in something and then there's Lady's office, 521 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 1: which is a doctor boinking his patients. Now there's definitely 522 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 1: some kind of power play here. He seems to be 523 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: into that. Good for him, I guess. I mean, it's 524 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 1: good to know what you like. Don't be shamed about 525 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,239 Speaker 1: your personal porn preferences unless your personal porn preferences are 526 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 1: creepy as fuck. So yeah, Alfonso is known as like 527 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 1: the Playboy, but he's also known as El Africano, which 528 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: is like African. So by the time the nineteen twenties 529 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 1: rolls around, he's thinking, oh, it's the way, Shane, we 530 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: lost those colonies over in the Americas. Wouldn't it be 531 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: swelled to have something somewhere else? So he's thinking Africa 532 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: because you know, he's getting into it, and he wants 533 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 1: to expand Spain's reach because he's trying to like grip 534 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: onto colonial powers in Morocco. Unfortunately, the public aren't really 535 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 1: keen on this, and this riff war that lasted like 536 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 1: six years really pissed people off. 537 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 2: And so well this was going on. 538 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,799 Speaker 1: People were like burning flags in the street and they 539 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 1: were getting slowly but surely more pissed off with the monarchy. 540 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,600 Speaker 1: So there is defeat after defeat happening in Morocco, and 541 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 1: it gets to the point that Spanish soldiers just refuse 542 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: to get on the boat in Malaga, like things are 543 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 1: just not going well, and everybody. 544 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:50,880 Speaker 3: Just hates this whole situation. 545 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,399 Speaker 1: So by the time nineteen thirty one rolls around, they 546 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 1: are these municipal elections in Spain and the republic coalition, 547 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 1: which wanted to change the country's government system, wins by 548 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,759 Speaker 1: this like massive margin. So the whole point of this 549 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:09,399 Speaker 1: vote is just to choose whether the monarchy continues, right, That's 550 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,760 Speaker 1: the whole purpose of it. So the government is fucking 551 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 1: shocked when the election comes around, when they realize that 552 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: the monarchy is done. It's screwed, it's not happening, and 553 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,920 Speaker 1: Alfonso he decides best get the heck at a dodge 554 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: and he leaves the country on April fourteenth, nineteen thirty one, 555 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,640 Speaker 1: and the Second Spanish Republic is established and it's actually 556 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,600 Speaker 1: had like pretty peaceful actually, So at this point Spain 557 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:44,319 Speaker 1: is now a republic and the government is you know, 558 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,760 Speaker 1: sort of in charge of everything, so there's no you know, monarchy. 559 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,360 Speaker 1: So later on that year, the government has this debate 560 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 1: about Alfonso, and so you know, he interferes the institutions. 561 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:57,839 Speaker 1: He was doing stuff for gain and you know, making decisions. 562 00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 2: Without consulting the government. 563 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: So he was and they effectively decided that Alfonso was 564 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 1: guilty of high treason. So by the time he's gone, 565 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,319 Speaker 1: when he leaves Spain, he is living in exile and 566 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: he's getting involved in these anti republican plots. I mean, 567 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,560 Speaker 1: he tries to gather all these supporters from different factions, 568 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,719 Speaker 1: from the monarchists camp, and in nineteen thirty two he 569 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:30,200 Speaker 1: endorses a manifesto by the claimant Alfonso Carlos, and so 570 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,799 Speaker 1: this hints that the king might give up his rights 571 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:42,440 Speaker 1: if certain conditions were met. Now, in thirty three, Alfonso's 572 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,320 Speaker 1: two eldest sons they both renounce their claims to the throne. 573 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: And in thirty four, Gonzalo, the youngest son, he dies 574 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:56,680 Speaker 1: and this leaves Klan his only male heir. And in 575 00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:01,080 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty six there's an attempted coup against their publican government. 576 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:07,960 Speaker 1: So Alfonso's son Juan, he tries to join the rebel faction, 577 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,240 Speaker 1: but he has stopped and returned by a rebel general 578 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 1: because they see through the plot. Because he goes in 579 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,759 Speaker 1: under a false name, and he tries to break in, 580 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:25,000 Speaker 1: and it becomes clear to Alfonso that he is not 581 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,520 Speaker 1: going to be restored as king, and so after the 582 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:33,279 Speaker 1: Republican victory after the Spanish Civil War and the establishment 583 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:38,279 Speaker 1: of the Second Spanish Republic, Alfonso leaves Spain again, and 584 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: Alfonso he is very aware now that he is not 585 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,360 Speaker 1: getting that throne again. It is not on the list, 586 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,799 Speaker 1: and so in the fifteenth of January nineteen forty one, 587 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:56,000 Speaker 1: Alfonso renounces his right to the Spanish throne, thus allowing 588 00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,360 Speaker 1: Juan to claim the title. And at this point Alfonso 589 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,879 Speaker 1: he is exiled and he is living in Rome, and 590 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,920 Speaker 1: then on the twenty eighth of February that year, nineteen 591 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 1: forty one, he passes away from a heart attack. So 592 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:15,200 Speaker 1: back in Spain, Francisco Franco, who is the dictator at 593 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:20,520 Speaker 1: the time, he orders three days of national mourning, which 594 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:24,160 Speaker 1: seems like a really weird, no hard feelings kind of gesture, 595 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,120 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I took over rule in the country. Good 596 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:33,600 Speaker 1: in the morning now. So the ex king his fun 597 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,400 Speaker 1: is held in the Santa Maria degli Angeli a dee Mardiri, 598 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,719 Speaker 1: which is in Rome, and then he's buried in the 599 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,360 Speaker 1: Spanish national structure of Rome, which is the Santa Maria 600 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 1: in Montsreto degli Spagnoli, and there he remained until nineteen eighty, 601 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:55,319 Speaker 1: when his remains were actually removed and transferred to El 602 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,239 Speaker 1: Escuriel in Spain. It's nice to seem got to go 603 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:03,680 Speaker 1: home eventually, and so ends our tale of the randy 604 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:09,000 Speaker 1: royal King Alphonso the thirteenth of Spent. 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It just really really really helps. 615 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:41,880 Speaker 2: I just realized I've forgot to do my dedication. 616 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 1: So this week's episode is for my fantastic Patreon. 617 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 3: Supporter, Jamie. Love you, Jamie. 618 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,200 Speaker 1: You've been with me so long, it's been ninety two years. 619 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,960 Speaker 1: But yes, it has been a wild It's been such 620 00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,080 Speaker 1: a wild week. I'm surprised, and I hope you're all 621 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,400 Speaker 1: enjoying the summer and getting to do something nice. 622 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:04,720 Speaker 2: You should. 623 00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:06,399 Speaker 1: You should go and treat yourself to something. I don't 624 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,719 Speaker 1: know what it is, but you go treat yourself to something. Oh, 625 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:15,719 Speaker 1: recommendation time. Okay, I am gonna recommend for reading the 626 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,760 Speaker 1: book Fingersmiths by Sarah Warders. 627 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,080 Speaker 2: It's a good read. You should just just go read it. 628 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:27,680 Speaker 1: It's fun. For listening Harley Quinn, I'm the Joker. It 629 00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:31,200 Speaker 1: is a podcast on Spotify. It's got Christina Ricci. 630 00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:32,000 Speaker 2: Just listen. 631 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 3: She's fabulous. 632 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 2: Absolutely, And for watching. 633 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,520 Speaker 1: Ooh, has anybody seen the new Indiana Jones movie yet? 634 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,640 Speaker 1: I know it's got time traveling it and that's kind 635 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,920 Speaker 1: of eh, But go to the Indiana Jones movie if 636 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,760 Speaker 1: you haven't, because we can't help ourselves at this point. 637 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,319 Speaker 1: If I start something, I like to finish it. It's 638 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,360 Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I haven't watched any Fast 639 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,840 Speaker 1: to the Furious films since, like the second one, because 640 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,640 Speaker 1: I haven't seen the third and until I go through 641 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:05,799 Speaker 1: the main chronological order. I can't watch them. It's like 642 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,080 Speaker 1: this time I accidentally read the second novel in a 643 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:09,200 Speaker 1: book series. 644 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,040 Speaker 2: And it pissed me off so much. 645 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,840 Speaker 1: I cannot convey you just how enraged I was, and 646 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,040 Speaker 1: I had to go and find the first book in 647 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,840 Speaker 1: this weird book series. And anyway, I hope you have 648 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:24,480 Speaker 1: a good time, enjoy your summertime, and. 649 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,720 Speaker 3: Don't forget you can follow me on social media. 650 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,880 Speaker 1: I am on Facebook and Instagram and TikTok and tweeter. 651 00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 1: I am and all the places. The links are in 652 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:37,200 Speaker 1: the description down below, So come say hi. I'm pretty 653 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,919 Speaker 1: good at responding when I'm not being sent like paragraphs 654 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,560 Speaker 1: of bollocks. But anyway, I shall bid you farewell. 655 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:45,759 Speaker 2: Adios. 656 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,040 Speaker 3: A revoir of waitzen Bibebye