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Speaker 1: It's nineteen forty three in the Kingdom of Bulgaria and

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Speaker 1: Boris the Third is on the throne. He's a gentle

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Speaker 1: king who likes catching butterflies until he's brutally unseated.

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Speaker 2: This blameless king has fallen a victim the Moss Vulgar Murder.

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Speaker 1: The official story is that he dies of a heart attack, but.

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Speaker 2: We have this ghastly suspicion that something was wrong. I'm

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Speaker 2: convinced that something was put into his soup.

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Speaker 1: As the Second World War rages, King Boris is dead.

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Speaker 1: But why killer King?

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Speaker 2: We're talking about powerful people in a very difficult point

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Speaker 2: in history. I think there may be something underhand gone on.

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Speaker 2: I really do.

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Speaker 1: Every nation is a suspect.

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Speaker 2: It was wartime. There were many many people who would

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Speaker 2: have been happy to get rid of him.

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Speaker 1: I'm investigative journalist Becky Milligan and This is The Butterfly King,

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Speaker 1: a new podcast from Exactly Right and Blanchard House. It's

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Speaker 1: a cruel tale about buried truths and historical cover ups.

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Speaker 2: It's a falsifying history. It's quite a lot of blood.

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Speaker 1: About a man who's been hunted his whole life.

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Speaker 2: He survived ambush, he was the original James Bond of

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Speaker 2: Bulgaria in many respects.

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Speaker 1: And it's a haunting family drama about her doomed royal dynasty.

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Speaker 2: Who would want to cover up after so many years?

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Speaker 2: It's disturbing.

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Speaker 1: The truth is out there and I'm determined to find it.

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Speaker 1: The Butterfly King premieres on March the twenty first on

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Speaker 1: the Exactly Right Network. New episodes Thursdays. Follow The Butterfly

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Speaker 1: King on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.