68.5 - Adélaïde d’Orléans, Part 1

This unassuming spinster who "won the throne for her house" through sheer tenacity and courage. This episode, we cover the House of Orléans's history, and Adélaïde's long and often tragic life up to the heady days of the July Revolution, when she vowed to "share the fate of the Parisians".

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Today's outro music is an excerpt from François-Adrien Boieldieu's "Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in C: 3. Rondo (Allegro agitato)", performed by harpist Marisa Robles and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, released 1990. ℗ Decca Music Group Limited.

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