Podcasts about european royalty

Beth is in the company of an amazing young woman as May is Mental Health Awareness Month, we have the success story of a survivor from 7 years of seclusion by the cult NXIVM, India Oxenberg. She is the producer and actor in the compelling documentary about her experience of abuse, deprivation, and deep manipulation Seduced by The Nxivm Cult. She is also the author of her memoir, Still Learning, an avid activist, and a descendant of European Royalty. Disclaimer: The content of this podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered a substitute for medical treatment, or advice, and shall not make any health or medical-related decision based in whole or in part on anything contained in the site. The opinions expressed by the guests do not necessarily reflect the views of Beth Shaw or YogaFit.

In the summer months of 1789, during the public uprisings that would eventually turn into the French Revolution, the backlash against the French Royal family turned bloody as the family is captured and imprisoned in the medieval tower known as The Temple. King Louis XVI, Queen Marie-Antoinette, and their adolescent children, daughter Marie-Therese and son (and heir to the throne, or "the dauphin") Louis-Charles were kept mostly separated and fearing for their lives. Eventually, the King and Queen are executed by guillotine, leaving Louis-Charles the new king of France, at 8 years-old.  Remaining held in captivity, beaten, raped, and tortured for years, the boy dies in captivity of "prison fever," ravaged by disease and mistreatment at only 10 years old. But in time, rumors flew, floating the idea that the boy-king was actually secretly rescued and whisked away to the New World, a different dying boy kept in his stead.  After the rumors and innuendo had seemingly died off, 44 years later, an Indian Missionary in Green Bay, 50 year-old Eleazer Williams, claims that HE is the "Lost Dauphin" and rightful heir to the French Throne.  Williams becomes an international celebrity, vouched for by artists, doctors, and even several members of the former royal staff that swore Williams was actually the former boy-king, thought to have died in captivity decades before. Hear this fantastical tale of Wisconsin's brush with European Royalty, and find out of we really did have a King among us. In the opening banter, Scott and Mickey discuss a high-profile missing child case currently in Two Rivers, and discuss the Top 10 "Magical and Mystical" places in our state. All on Episode 36 of Badger Bizarre, "The Lost Dauphin"   Facebook Twitter Website Email us:  badgerbizarre@outlook.com   Opening Trailer: Ed Gein Sound Byte : "Hard Copy" - Paramount Domestic/CBS Televsion Frank Lloyd Wright and Jeffery Dahmer Sound Byte - WISN 12 News - Milwaukee, WI Jeffery Dahmer Quotes: "Inside Edition"  - King World/CBS Television/CBS Media     Attribution for Music: Trailer: Composer: Adam Phillip Zwirchmayr https://www.pond5.com/ Intro: https://pixabay.com/ Outro: Composer: Viacheslav Sarancha  https://www.pond5.com/     Attribution for logo design: Red Claw Scratch Photo   Sources: Bonaparte, Darren: Eleazer Williams "The Lost Mohawk" Cadbury, Deborah; "The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette " Green Bay Press Gazette - Archives Hanson, John H; The Lost Prince (1854) History.net/Eleazer Williams Legends from History Oberg, Michael Leroy; "Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams" Wisconsin Historical Society/Eleazer Williams   Opening Sources: Elijah Vue Rickey Jean Bryant Up North News - Top 10            

Dodd1s'5 Gr4nd S7am, Road to RomeRob Wainwright's next crazy adventure, 'All Roads Lead to Rome' to bring the curtain down on DoddieAid 2024 for the 6N match between Italy & Scotland, has been discussed and plans have been made.Enter Rob's disciplines, Ian Barr & Rob Boyns. They've taken the idea, and in true DoddieAid fashion, have made it bigger and more spectacular.I caught up with them both to find out more, including a date with European Royalty...Happiness is Egg ShapedSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/happiness-is-with-bruce-aitchison. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've combined our previous coverage of Empress Sisi of Austria because she's getting a lot of screen time these days and we found ourselves in need of a refresher, so we thought you might be, too. Both the Netflix series, The Empress, and a theatrical release, Corsage, cover different time periods in the life of this young noblewoman who was plucked from obscurity and shoved onto the world stage. She found the limelight a difficult place in which to live, but her beauty and her genuine concern for the common people earned her the status of a reluctant icon. Sisi's ultimate death shocked the whole world.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to the Football Bloody Hell podcast, a retro football podcast full of nostalgia, memories and recollections of when football was just a little bit better. This podcast is sponsored by the Football Bloody Hell Shop, the perfect place to get iconic retro posters of all your favourite football legends. Head over to the Football Bloody Hell shop to find your perfect poster. In this podcast, we finish our series on Liverpool's famous Boot Room. This is the eighth episode as we come to the end. We hope you enjoy this podcast and please do share it with all your retro football-loving friends. If you like it, please do leave a review so we can climb the league table. It helps more people like you find us. The Boot Room: Liverpool's engine room for European royalty - part eight. Check out our shop where you can buy amazing, iconic framed artwork and high-quality t-shirts. Right now we have free shipping on ALL artwork orders. Simply head to footballbh.shop. Also, don't forget to check out all the written content on the site over at footballbh.net. Today's podcast was written by Robin Mumford and narrated by Roger T'Obor. We will be back soon with another short podcast for you to enjoy.

Welcome to the Football Bloody Hell podcast, a retro football podcast full of nostalgia, memories and recollections of when football was just a little bit better. This podcast is sponsored by the Football Bloody Hell Shop, the perfect place to get iconic retro posters of all your favourite football legends. Head over to the Football Bloody Hell shop to find your perfect poster. In this podcast, we reach part seven of our series on Liverpool's famous Boot Room. We hope you enjoy this podcast and please do share it with all your retro football-loving friends. If you like it, please do leave a review so we can climb the league table. It helps more people like you find us. The Boot Room: Liverpool's engine room for European royalty - part seven. Check out our shop where you can buy amazing, iconic framed artwork and high-quality t-shirts. Right now we have free shipping on ALL artwork orders. Simply head to footballbh.shop. Also, don't forget to check out all the written content on the site over at footballbh.net. Today's podcast was written by Robin Mumford and narrated by Roger T'Obor. We will be back soon with another short podcast for you to enjoy.

Steven Kuhn – Author of 'Unleash Your Humble Alpha'Steven is a U.S. Military combat veteran who has been hand-picked to consult with some of the most influential people in the world (rock stars, singers, actors, business leaders and politicians) to turn around their business and how to expand their brand, build value and loyalty and develop strategies for increasing beneficial relationships for increased revenue and achieving true Quality of Life (QOL). Steven is a best-selling author and has a new book that was just released with his partner and co-author Lane Belone, (Special Forces Green Beret veteran) with the title Unleash Your Humble Alpha Steven has trained, coached and participated in leadership roles in nearly every capacity: historical leadership of European Royalty, Military Combat Operations leadership, political leadership in Europe and the US, spiritual leadership from the Natives in North and South America, monks in Europe, having turning around hundreds of around the world. Leadership from nearly all walks of life, all synthesized into what he calls Humble Alpha Leadership. Steven Kuhn and Lane Belone helps leaders how to achieve their own version of quality of life with their Humble Alpha Leader Program. FAVOURITE LEADERSHIP QUOTE: Standard boring one: Delegate the task, never the responsibility Awesome one: Focus on impact outside of yourself. This is the path to make a real impact in the world and reach fulfilment in life. This includes the mission of you elevating others around and helping them step into their own greatness. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the Football Bloody Hell podcast, a retro football podcast full of nostalgia, memories and recollections of when football was just a little bit better. This podcast is sponsored by the Football Bloody Hell Shop, the perfect place to get iconic retro posters of all your favourite football legends. Head over to the Football Bloody Hell shop to find your perfect poster. In this podcast, we continue our series on Liverpool's Boot Room. Today, we glide into the 1980s. We hope you enjoy this podcast and please do share it with all your retro football-loving friends. If you like it, please do leave a review so we can climb the league table. It helps more people like you find us. Check out our shop where you can buy amazing, iconic framed artwork and high-quality t-shirts. Right now we have free shipping on ALL artwork orders. Simply head to footballbh.shop. Also, don't forget to check out all the written content on the site over at footballbh.net. Today's podcast was written by Robin Mumford and narrated by Roger T'Obor. We will be back soon with another short podcast for you to enjoy.

Meghan Markle's marriage to England's Prince Harry was an education for Americans about how a foreign commoner—though a popular television actress—is embraced into an old European monarchy.  But before Meghan became a Duchess and even before Wallis Simpson tempted a king from the throne, there was the affair between Katherine “Kitty” Elkins, daughter of West Virginia's Senator Stephen Benton Elkins, and the Duke of Abruzzi, heir to the throne of Italy. The world's newspapers were agog as the two carried out a long, tempestuous affair that asked the question, “Will they marry?” and answered the question, “How do royal families react when one of their own dates a commoner, even one who is a daughter and granddaughter of U.S. Senators?” 

Welcome to the Football Bloody Hell podcast, a retro football podcast full of nostalgia, memories and recollections of when football was just a little bit better. This podcast is sponsored by the Football Bloody Hell Shop, the perfect place to get iconic retro posters of all your favourite football legends. Head over to the Football Bloody Hell shop to find your perfect poster. In this podcast, we continue our series on Liverpool's famous Boot Room this time taking a closer look at the part played by Ronnie Moran. We hope you enjoy this podcast and please do share it with all your retro football-loving friends. If you like it, please do leave a review so we can climb the league table. It helps more people like you find us. Check out our shop where you can buy amazing, iconic framed artwork and high-quality t-shirts. Right now we have free shipping on ALL artwork orders. Simply head to footballbh.shop. Also, don't forget to check out all the written content on the site over at footballbh.net. Today's podcast was written by Robin Mumford and narrated by Roger T'Obor. We will be back soon with another short podcast for you to enjoy.

What you'll learn in this episode: The surprising stories Prince Dimitri discovered while compiling material for his book, “Once Upon a Diamond: A Family Tradition of Royal Jewels” How decorative and fine arts have influenced jewelry throughout history Why paisley is an enduring motif in jewelry Why mixing high and low jewelry and fashion has always been chic How Dimitri's ancestor Catherine the Great created the royal uniform we recognize today About Prince Dimitri Prince Dimitri founded his company in 2007 after sixteen years as Senior Vice President of Jewelry with Sotheby's and later as head of Jewelry at Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg auction houses. Dimitri's love of jewelry dates from his childhood and unique heritage of a family where the heads of European Royalty were closely tied together in an era of extreme opulence, beauty and culture all over Europe. He began designing jewelry in 1999, with a collection of gemstone cufflinks that was sold at Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue. He also designed a line of women's jewelry that was sold at Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus. He has designed for Asprey's in London and done special lines for other American companies. With his own jewelry company he has been able to realize his own vision in his love of gemstones; the juxtaposition of unusual materials and color; imaginative forms and paying attention to detail and to superb craftsmanship. Additional Resources: Website Instagram Facebook Dimitri's Book Photos: Available on TheJewelryJourney.com Transcript: Growing up surrounded by the world's most beautiful jewels, it's no wonder that Prince Dimitri became a jewelry designer known for his gemmy creations. After working in the auction world for many years, he launched Prince Dimitri Jewelry, which offers a range of jewels from affordable to six-figure masterpieces. He joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about how jewelry became a symbol of royalty; the most memorable pieces that came across his desk at Sotheby's and Phillips; and where royal jewelers throughout history found inspiration. Read the episode transcript here. Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is the second part of a two-part episode. If you haven't heard part one, please go to thejewelryjourney.com. Today, my guest is Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia. Welcome back.    You know so much about this, I'm sure, because of studying through auctions, but is it because you looked at Russian jewelry, too, as part of your background?   Prince: Yes, and I've read all the Cartier books. My favorite book of the moment, apart from mine, is the one of Francesca Cartier. I did a podcast with her. The beginning of a certain style of tiara was the tiara of Grand Duchess Vladimir, my great grandmother. She had invited him to her palace in St. Petersburg and introduced him to the court. There was a particular tiara she liked that is now the property of the Queen of England. It's the favorite, actually, of the Queen of England, but Cartier also was her favorite. He asked her if she would be kind enough to loan it to him so he could get inspired by it. She, being the most important patron of the arts in Russia at the time, immediately said, “Yes, let them have it.”    His first tiara, he made it for an American heiress who had married one of the sons of the King of Greece. I show it in my book on two pages, one next to each other, the two tiaras. You can see exactly my great grandmother's tiara in it, but you can see exactly the Cartier style as well. It's unbelievable, the alchemy he did. He took the design, tweaked it, altered it, made some changes, and turned it into a typical Cartier thing. It's the typical art of the French. French art, I would say from the Middle Ages on, and especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, was the art of taking an element from foreign cultures, but doing the magic of turning it into a specifically French product. You see that with porcelains, with furniture, with Japanese lacquers and the Chinese porcelains mounted in the French bronzes, all of that. That's what Cartier wanted to reproduce in his workshop, this mentality of being able to create magic like that, which is true creativity. It all started during the Renaissance times, which marked the beginning of that mentality. Every artist today works based on that.    Sharon: You like paisley as a motif.   Prince: Yes, I love paisley.    Sharon: Why?   Prince: Because the shape is so pretty, and the history is so interesting. It is believed that it arrived in Iran and India more or less at the same time, during the conquest of Alexander the Great. He conquered half of the world in those days, and he died pretty young, at the age of 30, I think, in India. A lot of his armies didn't want to go back to Greece and just settled in India and then Iran. On the artifacts they had with them was a shape that was very similar to the paisley. It was the mango. The mango, in ancient Greek decorative arts, represented the symbol of fertility.   Sharon: What was the name of it?    Prince: The mango, the fruit.   Sharon: Oh, mango, O.K.   Prince: Yes, the Greek mango was the symbol of creativity, fertility and all that. The Persians and the Indians were already an advanced civilization, and they loved the shape and created their own out of it. It's different from the mango, but when you see the two together, you understand how it originated.    It then came back to Europe in the 19th century. There was a huge revival of paisley, and it was immediately applied to fabrics. The center of fabric in Europe was a town in Scotland where they made all the famous shawls that all the elegant ladies of the 19th century wore. The name of that city in Scotland was Paisley. That's why it's called paisley. In French we call it the Kashmir motif, and in Italian also, because it's from the Kashmir region of India. They made it very popular to the western world after it disappeared. It never came back. It's this idea of art going back and forth between different continents, which I find fascinating.   Sharon: Your jewelry is mostly by commission. Is it somebody bringing you a bag of their grandmother's stuff and saying, “What you can you do with this?” or is it, “My wife has a birthday coming up. What can you do?”   Prince: Exactly. We do a lot of that, or cufflinks for the husband or little pendants for young men for graduations. I do Damascus steel corsets, Damascus steel being the metal with which they made the swords for the crusaders. It's folding sheets of steel, like how you fold sheets to make a croissant, like a baked pastry. In my book, you will see how when you cut it, the way it's folded appears. It gives a wonderful design to the steel itself, and then you apply stones to it, and it makes something very, very interesting. I try and make it into my style of design at the same time to make it more interesting.   Sharon: And you say it's appealing to your male clients?   Prince: Male clients or female clients who like more toned-down jewelry, more masculine jewelry, because some jewelry is masculine. During the whole Art Deco period and the retro period, all of a sudden they veered away from all the flowers and the fussy things from before to make more geometric forms, which were more masculine. So did fashion. The fashion was more strict. There were fewer feathers, less fabric. It's a back and forth in history between the energies of yin and yang. You see it in decorative arts.   Sharon: Do you find it's become more popular or growing in popularity? What's the market?   Prince: The market nowadays is for smaller things that you can wear all the time and that you can dress up and down. I make things you can wear with a ball gown that will look amazing, but you could also wear it with a jean and a white T-shirt. It has this chameleon aspect to it. It will blend into your outfit and people won't realize what you're wearing. This is good. You want only the opinion of those who understand jewelry. You want them to understand. To people who don't understand, it doesn't matter. Stuff like that.   Sharon: I think—and this is based on some of the reading I was doing—you talked about it being very chic to mix the high with the low.   Prince: Yeah, to mix things like that. I remember during my second year at Sotheby's in Geneva, there was a lady who walked in who looked like a model. She was a model; she was actually a Serbian model of unbelievable beauty. She was wearing a white T-shirt and jeans and high heels, and on her pinkie finger she had stuck two rings. One was an emerald-cut, D flawless diamond of 30 carats, and the other one was a 25-carat cushion-cut Kashmir sapphire. I spotted those and I said, “Is this what I think it is?” and she said, “Yes, absolutely.” You know who that lady was? Mrs. Rizzoli.    Sharon: I'm sorry, who?   Prince: It was Mrs. Rizzoli.   Sharon: Mrs. Rizzoli, the publisher?   Prince: Yeah. I was told afterwards when she left, but it's Rizzoli who did my book. I always remember what an interesting way of wearing jewelry it was. She has certainly influence my creativity, I think.    Sharon: I'm sorry; I'm just not following. Because you would expect somebody like that to be dressed a lot more formally?   Prince: I had never seen somebody with a jean and T-shirt wearing a 30-carat, D flawless diamond. She was wearing $10 million of diamonds on that finger, and nobody paid attention. I spotted it immediately because gems speak to me.    Sharon: When they speak to you, are they telling you what to do with them?   Prince: Yes, sometimes, but I don't know. The first thing I notice is jewelry. It's like a sixth sense I have.   Sharon: I don't know how many places somebody's going to walk in with a 30-carat, D flawless diamond. Maybe in New York. How many do you see? I don't see that many, anyway.   Prince: Not anymore. Yeah, not anymore.   Sharon: You've probably seen a million. When I think of the high and the low, I think of people describing wearing something from Target and then something from, I don't know, Tiffany. Maybe not so much anymore.   Prince: Yeah, from Tiffany, of course, or Cartier or anything. Even Fabergé.   Sharon: Yes. You talked too about having different lines at different price points. You have it for the ultra-rich and then you have it—   Prince: At every price point there is, because I like the challenge of being able to do something very pretty that's affordable. With unlimited budgets it's easier, but I also like the challenge. For instance, this is the best example. The other day, I had to do an engagement ring for the daughter of a friend of mine. The boyfriend of the fiancé couldn't afford much. He didn't have a very big budget, and he was wondering if we could do a mounting that would make the diamond look bigger and add two on the sides and all that. I said, “No, no, no. You don't want a ring that says, ‘This is all I can afford.' You want a ring that says, ‘I have fabulous taste, and this is it.'” So, I gave him a one-and-a-half-carat diamond, which is small, but I did a really nice mounting. We did something called the love note on each side.   Sharon: The love song?   Prince: The love note. The love note is also known as the note of Savoy, which I speak a lot about in my book and my Instagram. It's the symbol of true love, and it comes with a motto: It binds you, but it doesn't constrain. I said, “You already have a wonderful symbol in this thing. We're going to make it in platinum. There's no underhand. I want the diamond to touch the skin of your fiancé so she can feel it on the palm. It's going to be a work of art.” It worked. We kept the budget under $20,000.   Sharon: Wow! It's a love dot?   Prince: A love note.   Sharon: Is it a little knot on the side?   Prince: It's a love note, two of them. It's shaped like a figure eight, like an infinity note; one going up, one going down. It's the note Savoy. You'll see it in my book and on my website. I did an entire collection called “The New Look of Love,” and I do the colored version of it in gold with little cabochon stones. They are about $4,000 or $5,000 and they're super nice.   Sharon: And you find those do well for you?    Prince: Yes.   Sharon: I'm curious what you think. I was listening to a podcast this morning talking about inflation and whether there's going to be a recession with a little “r” or a big “r.” What do you see in terms of jewelry right now? How is the market for jewelry? Are people uncertain?    Prince: People are uncertain. It will slow down. I happen to be lucky right now. I have had a ton of orders lined up, but I don't know how long it will last. It all depends on how the economy does. It's always like that.   Sharon: Maybe you haven't experienced it for a while, but when times are slower in terms of jewelry, are you doing more drawings in preparation for when things pick up?   Prince: Yes, I do that. In 2008, I did that. I was drawing a lot because I like to draw.   Sharon: Do you wake up full of ideas?   Prince: Sometimes, yes. Not every day, but all of a sudden I do have ideas.   Sharon: And they're coming from things around you and things you see and what you read and history, like you talked about.   Prince: Yes, anything I could see in the street, for instance, any object, sometimes out of nothing comes an idea. You know what they say: for those who listen, even stones speak.   Sharon: That's interesting. I haven't heard that before. I think that's a great line.    You talk about Catherine the Great being one of your ancestors. She was a fabulous marketer through her jewelry; her jewelry was a form of marketing. Could you tell us more about that?   Prince: Yes. She normally had a gold dress. The dress was very important. She had something like 150 brooches sewn on the dress. She looked like a Christmas tree, plus the tiara and the crown behind all of that. She understood that somebody walked into the palace in St. Petersburg, let's say. If they saw her looking like that, they would instantly know that was the empress and that's what she did. In a way, she invented the outfit, the uniform of an empress.    It's funny you say that, because years later my grandmother told me, “Tiaras always give me a headache.” I said, “And could you not wear them?” She said, “No, I had to wear them because that's what was expected of us. It was our uniform. We had to wear tiaras and jewelry and look the part because that's what we were; that's what our job was.” You see it today. The Queen of England, who's a genius at what she does, is always the most elegant woman in England. If you didn't know she was the queen, which is impossible in the modern day because everybody knows what she looks like, but if you saw a lady dressed like that, you would instantly know she's somebody very important.   Sharon: You're communicating through your jewelry.   Prince: Yes, it's a uniform in a way. If you're a policeman, you were a policeman's uniform. If you're a nurse, you wear a nurse's uniform. If you're a princess or queen, you wear that kind of uniform.   Sharon: Which raises a question as you're talking, I'm thinking, “Why put tiaras with your jeans?” I don't know.    Prince: No, that you can't do. That is the one thing left that—first of all, you have to be of noble or royal blood, and it's only with a white tie on certain, very rare occasions.   Sharon: Do you have to be noble if you can afford it? I'm just wondering.   Prince: Yeah. The protocol is that it's only ladies of the nobility and of the aristocracy, meaning the nobility or the royalty, only those ladies are allowed a tiara, and they have to be married. Normally unmarried girls don't wear tiaras yet.   Sharon: Interesting.    Prince: No.   Sharon; Did you have a lot of tiaras cross your desk when you were in the auction houses?   Prince: Yes, quite a few from royal families in Europe. Yeah, very nice ones.    Sharon: Did they want them melted down, or did they want you to try and auction them as tiaras?   Prince: Auction them as tiaras, because it makes more money like that.    Sharon: Yes, I suppose—well, I don't. Would it? I guess it depends on what it was made of.   Prince: If you can wear it as a necklace, then it makes a lot of money. If you can't wear it as a necklace, then it sells for less because it's more a difficult thing to wear. A lot of those tiaras were necklaces fixed on an invisible frame that you put on your head. It stands up straight, and then you unscrew everything and you can turn it into a necklace, which was a very clever invention done in the 19th century. The Russians were the masters of that, jewels with a variable geometry, I call them.   Sharon: Jewels with a variable geometry. I think of the pieces that come apart as being more from the 30s and 40s, but you're saying it was done earlier.   Prince: Well before, at the end of the 19th century. The Russians did that. You could take the center parts and wear them as brooches.    Sharon: I'm surprised to hear that you're not talking about Fabergé jewels. Did you see those? Were they in your background?   Prince: I sold those, yes, but those were extremely, extremely rare. The most famous one in existence today is the Cyclamen Tiara of the Duchess of Westminster in England, which also unmounted to become a necklace. It's absolutely a dream of a tiara. My grandmother had some necklaces and pendants and little things, but not many important ones.   Sharon: Fabergé, she had.   Prince: Yeah, it was mostly objects and little jewels. But tiaras, there were very few made, and they disappeared during the Revolution.    Sharon: Prince Dimitri, where do you want to take your business from here?    Prince: I want to keep on growing, wherever that will be.    Sharon: Have you found it to be any help or impediment, being a prince? It must be, “Oh my god, it's a prince.” There's an attraction there, but has it been an impediment in what you do?   Prince: No, not really. You're right; there's always a curiosity, but after a while, that's it. There's also a human being.    Sharon: When people ask you what you are a prince of, what do you say? A Yugoslavian prince?   Prince: Yugoslavia, yeah. That's my birthright. When we were born, Yugoslavia still existed, even though it was a Communist country. Titles go on forever. They don't change in case of mutations or geopolitical upheavals and stuff like that. It's a birthright that follows the family forever because it proceeds from the family itself. One studies that in constitutional law in Europe, funnily enough, because some countries still recognize titles, the ones where there's a monarchy. On my English passport and Belgian passport, my title is written because they recognize it. On my American passport and my Italian passport, it's not written.   Sharon: Has it influenced your jewelry in any way?   Prince: No, it's all aesthetics. It's only about aesthetics.   Sharon: So it's removed from that.   Prince: Yeah. Movement is very important.   Sharon: What's your favorite jewel? What's your favorite gem?   Prince: I don't have a favorite gem because I really love all of them, but I have a favorite color combination, which is greens and blues together. For instance, there is nothing I like more than the mixture of aquamarine, emerald and sapphire together. There are lot of examples in my book based on that.    Sharon: How about the cut? Is there a favorite cut you have of a gem?   Prince: I like emerald cuts. I like a square emerald cut with cut corners. I like antique cushion cuts very much, and I love cabochon also.    Sharon: Do you work with all those?   Prince: I work with all of those. I also like pear shape, but it all depends on how it's cut. Some cuts don't work; others do. I like unusual cuts also, different shapes that are not seen very often. It depends on how you combine them.   Sharon: Right. I guess that's the artistry.   Prince: Yes.   Sharon: Thank you so much for being with us today and telling us about your line of jewelry. We can find it at Neiman Marcus. Besides that there's the book, which we can find—   Prince: You can find it on my website, Dimitri.com. You can find it on Amazon also. You can find it at Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas for the moment, along with a collection I designed specifically for them.   Sharon: For Neiman Marcus in Dallas. When you say specifically for them, how would it have been different if you had done it for Neiman Marcus in Los Angeles, for instance? What was specific?   Prince: From the moment I sold to Neiman Marcus, it was the one in Dallas. We just started last fall, and it's a variation of the cufflinks I was telling you about before. It's stones inside of stones, but with different colors, different assortments, a different way of designing it. Similar but different. That's what I'm doing only for Neiman Marcus.   Sharon: Do you see it throughout the states, though, in other places?    Prince: No.   Sharon: It's basically Neiman.   Prince: Neiman in Dallas for the moment. I'm hoping to expand that.   Sharon: Well, we'll look for you elsewhere, and we'll also look at the book. Thank you so much for being with us today. We greatly appreciate it.   Prince: Thank you so much. It was so kind of you to invite me. I'm very touched.   Thank you again for listening. 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What you'll learn in this episode: The surprising stories Prince Dimitri discovered while compiling material for his book, “Once Upon a Diamond: A Family Tradition of Royal Jewels” How decorative and fine arts have influenced jewelry throughout history Why paisley is an enduring motif in jewelry Why mixing high and low jewelry and fashion has always been chic How Dimitri's ancestor Catherine the Great created the royal uniform we recognize today About Prince Dimitri Prince Dimitri founded his company in 2007 after sixteen years as Senior Vice President of Jewelry with Sotheby's and later as head of Jewelry at Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg auction houses. Dimitri's love of jewelry dates from his childhood and unique heritage of a family where the heads of European Royalty were closely tied together in an era of extreme opulence, beauty and culture all over Europe. He began designing jewelry in 1999, with a collection of gemstone cufflinks that was sold at Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue. He also designed a line of women's jewelry that was sold at Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus. He has designed for Asprey's in London and done special lines for other American companies. With his own jewelry company he has been able to realize his own vision in his love of gemstones; the juxtaposition of unusual materials and color; imaginative forms and paying attention to detail and to superb craftsmanship. Additional Resources: Website Instagram Facebook Dimitri's Book Photos: Available on TheJewelryJourney.com Transcript: Growing up surrounded by the world's most beautiful jewels, it's no wonder that Prince Dimitri became a jewelry designer known for his gemmy creations. After working in the auction world for many years, he launched Prince Dimitri Jewelry, which offers a range of jewels from affordable to six-figure masterpieces. He joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about how jewelry became a symbol of royalty; the most memorable pieces that came across his desk at Sotheby's and Phillips; and where royal jewelers throughout history found inspiration. Read the episode transcript here.     Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is a two-part Jewelry Journey Podcast. Please make sure you subscribe so you can hear part two as soon as it comes out later this week.    Today, my guest is Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia. After more than a decade in the auction world, rising to the top of the jewelry ranks, Prince Dimitri took his love of gems and launched Prince Dimitri Jewelry. He is also an author, having written “Once Upon a Diamond: A Family Tradition of Royal Jewels.” The book has been described as an extraordinary family scrapbook. It has photographs of his relatives, who are celebrities and royalty, showing them wearing their jaw-dropping jewels. It weaves in stories of his illustrious family background and the history that goes behind the photographs. We'll hear more about Prince Dimitri and his jewelry as well as his jewelry journey today. Prince Dimitri, welcome to the program.   Prince: Thank you. Hello, Sharon. So nice to see you.   Sharon: Nice to see you.   Prince: I heard so much about you.   Sharon: Dimitri, I'm going to let you tell everybody what your official name is because I could not pronounce it. I saw different variations. Go ahead.   Prince: It's a Serbian name. It's pronounced Karageorgevich, and it's written with letters that don't exist in our alphabet.   Sharon: I didn't realize that. It's interesting; in everything I saw about you, it gave your name, but I didn't realize it was Serbian. Tell us about your jewelry journey.   Prince: It all started as a child. I was obsessed with gems, totally fascinated when I saw my mother and my grandmothers wearing jewelry. When we were in the street and there was a jewelry store, I had to go in and look, and I would stare at the showcases. It never left me. I think I was born with it. It's my passion in life. I joined Sotheby's in 1984 and I stayed there until 2001. Then I was at Phillips for three years. Little by little, I started designing, and now it's all I do.   Sharon: I thought it was interesting; some of the material I read said you started making jewelry because you decided you'd seen everything there was to see in jewelry after so long in the auction world. Tell us a little bit about that.   Prince: It's not exactly like that. I started designing cufflinks when I was at Sotheby's totally by chance. I had no idea I could design anything or that I was slightly creative. I was a gemologist and expert. I appraised jewelry, and that's all I did. Then a friend of mine had some cufflinks he had made in Brazil with some lovely stones, but a very ugly mounting with thick claws around it. I looked at it and I thought, “You know, I love those stones, but those big, thick claws around it are so clumsy. You need to remount them.” He said, “How should we remount them?” All of a sudden, my mind went blank. I saw a little hole, and I said, “That's it. You're going to drill a hole in the center of the cufflinks. In that hole, you're going to set a little diamond or a ruby or an emerald or a sapphire. It has to be a precious stone, one of those four. That will be how you mount it, through the stones. What you'll see on your shirt will be that lovely, emerald-cut aquamarine with a little stone in the center.” Slick, clean, very gemmy, very chic, I thought. He did it, and it worked beautifully.    He said, “Why don't we do a collection like that?” Long story short, we did the collection. It ended up at Bergdorf, at Saks. Little by little, I said, “Let's make some rings and some bracelets and some necklaces on the same principle. All of it,” and we made all that. We were doing trunk shows on the side, as I was still at Sotheby's then, and little by little, it took on a life of its own. Then I was given an offer to join Phillips with a group of other people. It was at the time when Sotheby's was going through major changes and nothing was very happy there anymore, so I thought, “Why not?” That didn't last very long, the Phillips adventure, so I continued.    Then, I was approached by a wonderful man who was called Salvador Assael, the king of pearls in those days. After the war, he had convinced all the big houses that black pearls were not black because they were dirty; they were black because it was a beautiful color. He finally opened their eyes. He told me the story of how they would look at the pearls and say, “But these are black pearls. They're dirty. Pearls are supposed to be white,” and he told them, “No, open your eyes. Look at this. This one is a green one. This one is a pinkish one. This one is a peacock one with mixes of green and purple,” and they loved it. He became the number one wholesaler of pearls.   Sharon: Is that Assael?   Prince: Assael, yeah.    Sharon: Wow!   Prince: He's very famous. He called me one day. He said, “You know, I love the old jewels and everything you make.” It was after 9/11. The market was not doing well for jewelry anywhere. He said to me, “I can't sell anything anymore because there are only so many strands of pearls people want. Do you think you can design a collection for me? More importantly, do you like pearls?” I said, “Yes, I absolutely love pearls.” We made this collection, and before you knew it, we were in every Neiman Marcus in America except three or four of them, I think. We were in 35 Neiman Marcuses. We were the number two seller at Neiman Marcus and it became a huge success.    Then I met my business partner who put me in business to be a serious company. That was 2008, so things didn't work as well as I wished. I had to go on my own because he couldn't funnel any more into it, and now that's all I do. I'm back at Neiman Marcus in Dallas, but the bulk of my business now is one-of-a-kind pieces. That's what I really like. As I say in the preface of my book, I like the concept of alchemy. Bring me some lead; I will turn it into gold. All my friends look into their drawers and find these old stones and granny's pearl necklaces that they can't wear because they're so dated and all of that. Sometimes they bring me bags of things that are totally unrelated and I do the magic. Half of the jewels in the book are made like that.    One of the typical examples: I was in Southampton with a friend. We were picking up pebbles on the beach together one day in August. We go home. She shows me these diamond earrings she wants me to remount, these little strings of diamonds that are badly made and boring. I went into the bowl where we had placed all the pebbles. I picked four of the most similar ones, and I said, “Here. This is where your diamonds are going. This is going to be your necklace.” She thought I was completely crazy. She said, “I know you are original and you have ideas, but—"   Sharon: You were mixing pebbles and diamonds? Is that what you were doing?   Prince: Yes. She said, “You're going to have to explain this to me.” I said, “I will. I will do a drawing for you, and you will make your decision.” So, I did the drawing. I get a phone call from her a few days later. She goes, “I love it. I need this necklace more than I've ever needed a piece of jewelry.” It's featured in the book; you'll see it.   Sharon: How did the book come about? Did you want to write the book? Did Rizzoli come to you?   Prince: The same way the first cufflinks came to me: totally by chance. It's one of the miracles of modern technology. It's called Instagram. I put all my jewelry on Instagram, but I have tons of old photos from the family, and I post them and write fascinating stories of what all these people have done. For instance, how my great-grandmother saved the life of Albert Einstein; how Adolph Hitler kidnaped the sister of my grandfather and had them killed in a concentration camp. Some of them are beautiful stories; some are very, very tragic, but there are many of them. Somebody from Rizzoli sent me a message on Instagram saying, “I love your Instagram. We should make a book based on that concept. I need to talk to you.” Long story short, it took two and a half years, and here we are.   Sharon: Somebody should put together a book of all the stories of everything that's come from Instagram, because people have started jewelry lines and written books from it. It's really launched a lot of people. Was it hard for you to gather all the material, or did you already have it?   Prince: I already had all the material. What I didn't have, my mother had. Also, some uncles and aunts and relatives had it, so that was easy. The difficult part was how we were going to make it work. We had to put the chapters in order. It was like a puzzle. We had everything on the floor in our minds, with the different chapters and stories and everything. Little by little, it came together. Everybody had a great idea. I had great ideas.    They lady who wrote the book with me had a great idea. She was a fantastic fact checker. She discovered, for instance, that—one of the stories I tell is how, before the war, my grandmother, then Crown Princess of Italy, had discovered Maria Montessori of the famous Montessori School. She decided she loved that program so much, because it was so modern and interesting and ahead of its time, that she wanted to create her own Montessori School at the royal palace for her children and children of the nobility.    My mother told me, “Yes, it was fantastic. Here's the photo.” The school was in the Gallery Uffizi in Florence, which had been turned into a palace one year before, in 1942. She said, “Yes, and Maria Montessori was so nice. I remember her.” Well, it was a fictitious memory my mother had because she was eight years old. We found out through fact checking that Maria Montessori was actually in India for eight years at the time. The person she met was the associate of Maria Montessori who founded the school with her. My mother assumed that, because her mother was who she was, it was actually Maria Montessori herself who came, but it wasn't the case. We discovered lots of stories like that.    Sharon: Interesting.   Prince: We discovered that my grandmother's famous Cartier jewelry was not Cartier jewelry. I pressed and pressed the wonderful gentleman at the Cartier archives, the poor thing. I tortured him so much that he had to do three months of research to find out that it was my great grandmother, the Grand Duchess Vladimir of Russia, who came to Cartier to buy some things and asked him if they could repair this tiara she had in her bag. It was a tiara from Chaumet, and nobody knew it. In every history book, it's listed as the Cartier Tiara.    I had just enough time to jump on my phone and call the editor at Rizzoli when we were already in full print. I said, “This is what's going on. We need to change the story.” They said, “You can delete the word Cartier. That's all I can do for you. It's too late.” We were in the middle of Covid. The paperwork was done in Bologna, which was the center of printing in Italy. “That chapter is going to be printed six hours from now, so let me hang up and call them.”   Sharon: Is that what you did? You just didn't use the word?   Prince: We just removed that, yeah. We couldn't say anything more, but I speak about it all the time. So, now people know.   Sharon: Interesting. I've seen the book and I've looked through it, but I don't come from an illustrious background like you do. My ancestors were not royalty, so I didn't relate to it as much, but now this humanizes it.   Prince: Yes. There are 16 pages of Romanov photos that have never been published before because I owned the four albums they were in, and I've never shown them to anybody. These are really interesting because it shows them in day-to-day life. They are in the south of France. They go to a spa in Gautreau, Seville, famous for its water. They visit the house of Joan of Arc. It's really interesting.    The most fascinating series of photos is the second Olympic Games in history, photographed by my great grandmother. It's all there in the book. There were also photos in Venice and photos in Spain at the bullfights, but we decided not to show the bullfight because it could be controversial. In those days, it wasn't.   Sharon: You've lived all over the world. Prior to coming to the auction world, you went to school in Switzerland, then France?    Prince: I was in law school in Switzerland for a while, then in France. Then I did law school in Paris.   Sharon: When did you do GIA?   Prince: When I came to New York. When I finished law school, I had so many friends already in New York. New York was this magic world far away from us. There was something very exotic about America and New York. It was quite fascinating, so I decided to come here and finish my law studies. I had my degree already, but I thought it would be a good idea to do a training program on Wall Street, which is what lots of European people did. So, I did that on Wall Street for almost a year. It was very interesting. I learned a lot of things, but I wasn't particularly ready to make it a career. There was an opening at Sotheby's that I found out about, and that's how it happened.   Sharon: Was it a huge decision, or was it a natural segue to go into that world from the world you were in, the business world?   Prince: Yes, it was a big decision. It was a very exciting decision. It was a logical thing to do because I have this Renaissance mentality. I think one should know about everything in life. I felt that with a law degree and a kind of Wall Street degree, which is a Series 7—it's the exams you take to become a stockbroker—I thought, “I'm well educated enough to do what I really like, which is gemology and stones and jewelry and all of that.”    I worked at Sotheby's right away. I knew enough about jewelry that I could become an expert right away, in the sense that I needed to learn gemology at the GIA, which I went did by following the prices in the market. Pretty quickly I moved up and became after six or seven years, I think, a senior vice president for the company.   Sharon: What was it about the auction world combined with jewelry that attracted you?   Prince: The amount of jewelry we sold every day, that was the exciting part. For every auction you see, the catalogue you see four times a year in New York, three times a year in Geneva, four times a year in London, and, in those days, also in Hong Kong, that catalogue represents the tip of the iceberg of what comes in and out the doors of Sotheby's. Every day, it was mountains of jewelry. It was so exciting to see so much. I'm very impatient. I want to see a lot. One diamond that's there day after day if you work in a shop is not exciting enough for me.    Sharon: You need the constant turnover and attraction.   Prince: Yes. That was great. One day we discovered, literally in a shoe box in a bank vault on Park Avenue, one of the most famous Cartier tiaras. The same one is in one of the Cartier books today. The lady who had it had no idea. She said, “I have this funny thing that goes on the head from my grandmother. Do you think it's worth anything?” I was like, “Yes! It's fantastic.”   Sharon: Wow! What else is in shoe boxes that we don't know about, right?   Prince: There were lots of things like that. My most beautiful story from Sotheby's, I have to say, was when this poor lady came in. She was a bag lady, literally, in tears and very nervous. I felt there was something going on there. She told me the tragic story of how her husband had divorced her, took all her money, and she had literally one little sapphire ring. She was hoping to get $2,000 to just be able to pay her rent or she was going to be evicted. She was going to be on the street. She starts crying and crying, and she said, “Do you think you can loan me the money?” I said, “Well, can I please see the ring?” She looks at me and goes, “Here it is. Do you think I can get maybe $10,000? Would that be possible? And you could loan me $2,000?”   I take a look at it. It is the most beautiful Kashmir sapphire I saw in my entire life. I said, “I think I can get more. Let me speak to my boss for the loan. Let me see.” I call everybody. I said, “Guys, you won't believe this.” I tell them the story. They all look at the stone and everybody says, “Oh, my god! We've never seen a stone like that.” My boss says, “You know we don't loan money against one piece.” I said, “John, she thinks it's worth $10,000. Let's offer her $75,000 to $100,000 for the ring and let it sell for over $200,000.” He goes, “Fine.”    I go back in the room with a check with me. I said, “Listen, it's your lucky day. That is a lovely ring. I think we can put an estimate of $75,000 to $100,000.” She almost fainted. She goes, “Oh, my god!” Three months later, she comes to the auction. We opened the bid at $75,000. Before you know it, the hammer falls, and it sells for $380,000. She is sitting in front of me sobbing and crying, and then all of us start crying because we knew the story. It is a lovely story because we really changed the life of somebody.   Sharon: That's true. You did the change her life, it sounds like. From there you moved to Phillips. From Sotheby's, you moved to Phillips?   Prince: Yeah.   Sharon: And you were head of the jewelry department there?   Prince: Yes.   Sharon: Where were you when the man from Brazil came to you with the first cufflinks?   Prince: I was at Sotheby's then. It was in 1997. It was 40 years before I left Sotheby's, so I was starting that process little by little then.   Sharon: In your jewelry, you barely see the jewelry part; you see the gem. Is it the gems that are talking to you?   Prince: Both. I love that. A lot of my jewelry is very gemmy, like you say. You're absolutely right, but a lot of it based on whimsical ideas, unusual materials like the pebbles from the beach or even rubber cords. I do things mounted on leather, Damascus steel, oxidized bronze, oxidized silver. 24-karat gold I use a lot. I do all sorts of things. The other source of inspiration is the shapes, shapes as you see them in decorative arts of every culture in the world.    That was the philosophy of Cartier. He instructed, already in the 19th century, the designers who worked for him to look at the decorative arts and to travel and take notes and make drawings of everything they saw, because that was the basis for all sorts of things. In the 19th century, there was a very famous book written, which is called “The Grammar of Ornament.” “The Grammar of Ornament” is a visual dictionary of every artistic style that ever existed in history in any country in the world. It's absolutely fantastic, and I've gotten tons and tons of ideas from there. So did the people at Cartier at the beginning.    For instance, the Edwardian period of Cartier, it coincided with two things: when they rediscovered the Louis XVI decorative arts style with the garlands—it was called the garland style—and the introduction of platinum. Platinum in the old days was not considered a precious metal; it was for industrial applications. Then, when they studied it, they realized how hard it was and how white it was. So, it quickly replaced silver.    If you look at tiaras made with silver, which are the oldest ones from the first half of the 19th century, they are very heavy. They are lovely, but there's something about them. With the introduction of platinum, Cartier was able to transform them into literally a spiderweb, completely ethereal. That's when they double in size. They're ten times as thin and you can put twice the amount of stones. It sits like an aura on your head. That is what gave them the impetus to create the garland style, the classical Art Deco that mutated into Art Deco. At the time, platinum became such a success that it became seven times more expensive than gold.    Sharon: Wow!    Prince: It's interesting, yeah?   Sharon: Yes, very.

Where has the teacher from the animal kingdom gone?  The definition of a teacher has been taken out of context.  We have taken sections of life and artificially separated them into certain cubbies.  Instead of providing students and other people who work with teachers and helpers with those who they can identify, today we see one type of teacher in schools and that is why they have gone from educational institutions to places of indoctrination. The animal kingdom includes many sub-kingdoms.  The energies running a country do not represent everyone but they see themselves as being the majority and others who are not like them are the fringe groups. The teacher is not limited in the animal perception and includes many words like doctor (teach in Latin), assist, coach, help, benevolent. Demonstrating, showing and sharing is the center of what teaching is.  Anyone who desires to cooperate, share their capacity, no matter what is teaching.  Unlike the mineral kingdom who define the teacher as a profession that has to behave in a very narrow definition depending on the mineral series – which will be covered in a future narrative.  The spiders and reptiles are from the animal kingdom.  Doing a proving is the best place to find the experience of a remedy.  Homeopathic provings are experiments done by healthy people who then experience the remedy in a double or triple blind study and the essence of the remedy through the multiple perceptions of many people. We are human with human DNA and the other song is an energy system that comes from different substance on Earth that we have separated into kingdoms.  Homeopathy from Today's World – again recommended as the one who discovered the method of understanding a larger inventory of remedies by looking at kingdoms.  Rajan Sankaran points out 3 postulates that homeopathy has incorporated which explains how we react to situations.  Our actions mimic what we perceive is being done to us. So, if you perceive yourself as being insulted even if you are not, you will insult back. The second postulate on p111, the sensitivity always denotes the opposite as well – if you are sensitive to harmony then discord is something you are also impacted by.  The last point to remember is that you are everything both the things and people you like as well as the ones you don't. You would be surprised at how many from the European Royalty use homeopathy.  Insects, reptiles and arachnids.  They are an interesting group, but feared by many especially minerals and plant energies.  p.61, the theme of survival of the fittest with strength and competition being central.  Attractiveness, attention seeking, getting the upper hand,  and strength keeps us in the group which allows for survival.  Looking at nature, we learn.  No one person can give you the laws of nature, you need to observe them.  There are characteristics of the animals which people have depending on the animal. Mammals are group energies and many are teachers.  Then you have birds who play a large part in the energy of teaching, supporting, sight and wisdom as seen in the proving of Great Horned Owl.  Peter Fisher has a book on this proving that was mentioned in a previous narrative. When we teach one way and decide to make all teachers from one perspective we miss out on real teaching and end up with brainwashing instead! Question for today:  How do we integrate tissue salts into homeopathy? Email me with questions at hownatureheals@gmail.com All views presented are based on credible sources, but they are explained through the individual's viewpoint.  Doing your own research while integrating new information is always important when forming your own viewpoint. The information in this podcast is not meant to address individual health needs, it is general in nature and should not be used as medical information for your health unless used in combination with your health practitioner.

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Welcome to another Football Bloody Hell podcast. In this podcast, we go back many, many years to a time where Liverpool FC's Boot Room was in fact just that. The club boot room. Over a series of pieces, we are going to delve into what turned a store room for the player's football boots into the most fabled tactical hothouse in the world. We hope you enjoy this podcast! Original piece by Robin Mumford.

This month we talk to a legend in the design industry.  Frank Sawkins from Czech & Speake.  You may not realise that many of the iconic ‘looks' of bathroom brassware, which is the name used for taps, spouts and shower heads, were originally designed and supplied by Franks company.  An industry leader, design innovator and expert in how to achieve the 5* luxury function and aesthetic in on of the hardest working rooms in your home.  Great Design means something functions as brilliantly well as it is beautiful! Frank shares with us one of the first attempts at creating an innovative function in the bathroom incorporating a push button flush (something which is common place today, but wasn't heard of then) and how his boss' brilliant design solution turned out not to be so brilliant - resulting in a flooded house.  Reminding us that the function is the most important aspect!  Helping reinforce my favourite phrase, function first, aesthetic after. Hotel feature bathrooms - Why are they such a common source of inspiration? Why do we love them Frank reminds us that the bathroom is an important test of the value of a hotel room - if we've spent €500 or €800 euro a night we expect for every element to be a very high standard, and the bathroom is one of the most important locations to showcase this.  The investment in a hotel bathroom, therefore, is really a way of making you comfortable and feeling like you've got value for money from your stay! It's also why trying to reproduce that look at how exactly like for like can be eye waveringly expensive! Bathrooms are glamorous  Bathrooms are a really good way of articulating the epoch of the hotel and whether it's the classical style of Claridges or the more modern styling of the Rosewood hotel there is a way to inject glamour into the bathrooms.  Bathrooms are inspirational & emotional! Staying in a hotel normally means we have the space and time to relax in the way we can't at home.  We will take the time to have a bath on a Monday night, when we would never manage this in our day to day busy lives! So not only are we spending time in these beautiful spaces taking in all the design details - we are also generally in a more positive and relaxed mindset - all of which is conducive to absorbing all those inspirational design details.  ‘Who doesn't love a glass of Champagne, good music and a beautiful bathroom!' Frank Sawkins, MD Czech & Speake Sympathetic bathroom design. If you live in a period property - there is a great supply of era specific brassware which you will find to suit the period of your building.  Frank goes on to talk beyond taps, into the icon roll top baths and even the use of appropriate wallpapers all too invoke and articulate the design style.  The original creator of the heritage tap range  I tell off Frank for not self promoting that in the 1970's and 80's, Czech & Speake brought out a range called the Edwardian - which has since been imitated and adopted (but never bettered in regards to quality) across the world.  If you have used or own a property with a ‘Victoriania' styled bathroom - there is a very good chance you are seeing the inspiration from Franks design.  If you are really lucky - you will actually have Czech and Speake originals! Must haves in a bathroom The first is water pressure: A bathroom should be therapeutic experience - this does mean good supply of hot water at the right pressure, literally, on tap.  And if you are thinking about water supply also making sure the drainage is as efficient as the supply. Challenge your designers with your desires: If you want to have three people all having showers or baths at the same time in the house, challenge your designers with how to achieve this.  It is possible to operate different systems to create this, but with extra design comes extra cost.  If the investment in that solution is too great for you - at least you know that you chose to have to stagger your showering, rather than being disappointed that your home isn't performing as you wanted.  Separate Lavatory: Adverts for bathroom sanitary ware always shows everyone in one room - but the reality is separating out the loo from the rest of the bathroom gets twice the use of the space. 5* hotels are using lavatory cabinets to achieve this - ensuring that the remaining space is pure luxury. Lighting - should not be an after thought. Natural light is the most important light when doing makeup but focused lights is essential for shaving.  So all kind of lighting needs to be thought about.  Just overhead lights will not work as it's too harsh for relaxing, casts shadows in the wrong place for anything you need to be close up in the mirror for and will create a false impression of the finish of your makeup.  If all of this is too overwhelming to think about - designers have a very good idea of what great lighting is and you can challenge them to ensure you have the full variety of types of lights for your varied needs.  Franks personal choice; He loves to have a consistent pallet for wall and floor - be it marble, ceramic or terrazzo.  He worked on a property with a great designer which had a number of elements cast in terrazzo and loved the consistency of that pallet.  Each to their own.  Say no to carpet! There is no excuse for carpet.  Full stop.  Rather have tiles with underfloor heating. The rest of the technical stuff Both Frank and I agree that a shower with a flush threshold is very important (nothing to trip over) but to get this right there needs to be lots of consideration to get the angle of the shower floor right so the water drains as fast as it is being supplied and that there is sufficient space under the shower for the drain and associated pipework. Something your designers will be able to ensure is possible. Mix and match or same same for bathroom accessories Frank talks about his own design style and how he prefers to have the same style for you taps, towel rails, toilet roll holders etc.  Achieving a mix and match style is much harder than you think.  When you see a mix and match style done well - it has a very good designer behind it and will follow a very clear and clever aesthetic strategy - often the things that feel effortless, have taken the most effort. And so much more Frank and I basically just love bathrooms and we talk fragrance, Japanese design, cleaning, views… listen to hear more about two people who love a glass of Champagne, good music and a stunning bath.  For more information Frank and the Czech and Speake range of products can be found at https://www.czechandspeake.com/bathrooms/ and his range of aromatics are available at https://www.czechandspeake.com/fragrance/  If you have enjoyed this episode please rate, review and subscribe as it helps other home owners design their happiness.

Relationships are a process not an outcome. Think about it, what would happen if it was an outcome? When would you know you've accomplished your goal? At what point is it time for the next? Imagine I told you, you maxed out on what you can get in this marriage? Thank goodness it's not an outcome! With that being the case, focus on the intention, not the outcome. In this couple-therapist episode, we get a really interesting perspective on what it's like to be married as a veteran. There's trauma, there's emotion and a whole lot of strength. But what does it actually take? There's a lot of understanding, conversation and connecting with who you truly are. Your spouse is not here to define for what it means to be a "man" or a "lady", that's yours to discover. Just remember no judgement! Steven is a U.S. Military combat veteran who has been hand-picked to consult with some of the most influential people in the world (rock stars, singers, actors, business leaders and politicians) to turn around their business and how to expand their brand, build value and loyalty and develop strategies for increasing beneficial relationships for increased revenue and achieving true Quality of Life (QOL). Steven is a best-selling author and has a new book that was just released with his partner and co-author Lane Belone, (Special Forces Green Beret veteran) with the title Unleash Your Humble Alpha Steven has trained, coached and participated in leadership roles in nearly every capacity: historical leadership of European Royalty, Military Combat Operations leadership, political leadership in Europe and the US, spiritual leadership from the Natives in North and South America, monks in Europe, having turning around hundreds of around the world. Leadership from nearly all walks of life, all synthesized into what he calls Humble Alpha Leadership. Connect with Steven: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenekuhn/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StevenKuhnOfficial/ Website: https://qolenterprises.com/ First and foremost, Dr. Michael Moats describes himself as a father, a husband, and a friend. His passion as a clinical psychologist lies in working with clients who are learning to redefine their lives and create new meaning, especially those dealing with grief and loss in its many forms (i.e., death, divorce, job loss, recent move, natural disaster, war.) Michael recognizes that every experience creates an opportunity to learn, to grow, and to heal, and he frequently utilizes nature, stories, and his general sense of awe and intrigue to bring psychological concepts into every relatable approaches to living. Connect with Dr. Moats: drmichaelmoats.com Dr. Michael Moats is the co-author of the newly released book "Sunrise through the Darkness" which can be found on Amazon, major retailers and right here: www.universityprofessorspress.com A vivid, grueling, step-by-step return from the dead to the living… A true story of faith, hope, and love from a man who survived 9/11 at the World Trade Center. Will inspire you, especially those without hope and those who seek to help others in jeopardy. —Oliver Stone, film director, producer, and screenwriter, Director, Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July Connect with ST: www.lifepixuniversity.com

We are joined in the Centre Circle by our very own Steven Scragg, as he talks to us about the final part of his incredible European club competition book trilogy. The Undisputed Champions of Europe examines the glory days and the various periods of dominance of the greatest club competition in the world - when the European Cup truly gave us the best club in Europe.

To celebrate the launch of the Bayern Munich magazine, the podcast team got together to discuss all things Bayern, from their remarkable rise in the 1970s - powered by all those immortal club heroes - to domestic dominance in the 1980s, Trapattoni, Hitzfeld and co in the 1990s and a modern rebirth under Heynckes and Guardiola.  

Learn Australian English in this latest episode of the Aussie English podcast! In this special interview episode, I got my mum Jo Smissen to talk about how our family descends from European royalty! With passion for doing research, she went all over the Web in an attempt to trace our family's ancestry. She was able to go back to the 1700s, finding out that we had family members who we part of the 12 known companions of William the Conqueror in The Battle of Hastings! Improve your listening skills today - listen, play & pause this episode - and start speaking like a native English speaker!

Leo Lyon Zagami, writer, researcher and Illuminati whistle blower shares about his illustrious connections to European Royalty. What he learnt as a Free mason and in other secret societies and the price he has paid for spilling the beans. He talks about the loss of a friend in the Norwegian Freedom Movement who died under suspicious circumstances and persecution in Italy. Is depopulation part of the Deep State agenda? Is socialism destroying Europe? Should Americans keep their guns? Are the secret societies practising Satanism? Leos website: https://leozagami.com/ Leo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leolyonzagamiamericanadventures Leo's book: Confessions of an Illuminati Vol. 6.66: https://amzn.to/3h6Z4Yi Further content information from this episode: https://www.livetheimpossible.today/169 Get the free Live the Impossible Playbook, here: https://www.livetheimpossible.today/ Oliver & Tora Zophias (Susana) mentoring programs: https://silverhoj.com/ Pam the Health Genie: https://www.pamlob.com/ Jon Century our household Magic Musician: https://www.joncentury.com/music Leo Lyon Zagami, writer and researcher is the son of Dr. Elio Zagami (1939- 2010), known Jungian analyst, writer and co- founder of GAPA (Independent Group of Analytical Psychology, of which he was president). His grandfather was Senator Leopoldo Zagami, a Sicilian politician who was also a known historian and author, who married into the the aristocratic family of the Marquis de Gregorio. Leo's mother is Jessica Lyon Young, a member of the family of the Queen Mother of England whose father, Henry Lyon Young was also a writer. Felicity Mason, Leo's maternal grandmother, helped Leo in developing his talents since a young age. Felicity was an old time collaborator and friend of avant- garde eccentrics such as William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. She was also known under the pseudonym Anne Cumming, which made her famous in the 80's as a controversial novelist, after working for many years in the cinema business with prestigious figures such as Fellini and Zeffirelli. Zagami, who is known for a brilliant career as Leo Young in the media and music industry as a Record Producer, became quickly popular on the web in 2006, because of his direct involvement in the New World Order and Secret Societies known to the majority of us as the “Illuminati.” His blog rose quickly and gained attention from people such as David Icke, for it's accurate fully documented ground breaking inside information. Between 2009 and 2014 he began publishing books in Europe and Japan, based on a variety of subjects that range from the history of the secret societies and the Vatican, to geo-political matters concerning the New World Order. In 2013, he collaborated with well known Italian journalists, Ferruccio Pinotti and Giacomo Galeazzi, in drafting a chapter for their Italian Best Seller “Vaticano Massone,” which was released in May 2013, dedicated to the secretive world of Vatican Freemasonry. Zagami who has collaborated in the last few years with a series of articles and scoops for Infowars, has been the protagonist of a highly successful documentary made by Alex Jones in Rome, called “Demonic Possession Of The Vatican Exposed” launched in 2015  during the 24 hour Infowars special called “Operation Money Bomb ” and later broke a scoop on Infowars in 2017 on a Gay Vatican Drug/Orgy, that forced the mainstream media to cover the story. After publishing 12 books in Italy and Japan with great success, he finally reached the English speaking public thanks to a 5 book deal made with San Francisco's CCC Publishing, who made available some of his previous works in the English language. However Leo's latest books, Confessions volume 4, Confessions Volume 5 and Vol. 6.66, published by newly established publishing house Cursum Perficio, were written entirely in English and not translated from Italian. Leo travels around the world giving conferences and has recently relocated to the U.S. after suffering political and religious persecution for his work in his native Italy. He is also publicly known for being one of the founders of Italians4Trump and Trumpiani d'Italia, the first Trumpian organizations out of the U.S. created to support the election and later the work of president elect Donald J. Trump. Further content information from this episode: https://www.livetheimpossible.today/169

Steven is a U.S. Military combat veteran who has been hand-picked to consult with some of the most influential people in the world (rock stars, singers, actors, business leaders and politicians) to turn around their business and how to expand their brand, build value and loyalty and develop strategies for increasing beneficial relationships for increased revenue and achieving true Quality of Life (QOL). Steven is a best-selling author and has a new book that was just released with his partner and co-author Lane Belone, (Special Forces Green Beret veteran) with the title Unleash Your Humble Alpha Steven has trained, coached and participated in leadership roles in nearly every capacity: historical leadership of European Royalty, Military Combat Operations leadership, political leadership in Europe and the US, spiritual leadership from the Natives in North and South America, monks in Europe, having turning around hundreds of around the world. Leadership from nearly all walks of life, all synthesized into what he calls Humble Alpha Leadership. Steven Kuhn and Lane Belone helps leaders how to achieve their own version of quality of life with their Humble Alpha Leader Program. FAVOURITE LEADERSHIP QUOTE: Standard boring one: Delegate the task, never the responsibility Awesome one: Focus on impact outside of yourself. This is the path to make a real impact in the world and reach fulfilment in life. This includes the mission of you elevating others around and helping them step into their own greatness.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEO #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #InclusiveLeadership #Boards See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this conversation Gina talks about researching her family tree with Ancestry.co.uk she has gone as back as far as being related to William the Conqueror and British and European Royalty. She gives plenty of tips is you are thinking about researching your family tree too.

Our guest today is Salvatore Ferragamo, the owner and CEO of Il Borro, an iconic estate in the heart of Tuscany. The property has a 1,000 year history and its walls have seen historical characters like the Medicis, Alessandro dal Borro, European Royalty, German occupational forces during WW2, and of course now - Italy’s most famous fashion family, The Ferragamos. Today Il Borro is an oasis of charm and is made up of a medieval village and several stand alone villas dotted along the rolling hills. You don’t come here, though, just for a hotel stay - the estate is famous for it’s fantastic wine, organic food production, extra virgin olive oil, and culinary program. Plan to come, savor the sights and tastes of Tuscany, and linger a little longer. Salvatore and I discuss what it took to restore this historical gem, why he thinks his roots in fashion have influenced his hospitality, and how he’s taking wine production back to its ancient roots.  See photos, show notes, and listener perks HERE. Connect with me on Social: Instagram LinkedIn

Dr. James Hardt moved around a lot in his earlier childhood due to his father being a teacher. This shaped his thinking about the nature of reality and the importance of transcending culture. He accelerated in Mathematics, Science and English in High School, which earned him a Scholarship and went to Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Physics, and then a Masters Degree and PhD in Psychology along with a postdoc in psychophysiology at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute in San Francisco.  What is Psychophysiology?  Dr. Hardt explains this term as psyche meaning “mind” and physiology meaning “body”. This involves interactions between mind and body. Dr. Hardt is a brain scientist and international businessman, and enables people to work with their physiology, the electroencephalogram, learning to control their emotions and their thinking or experiences, all of which are dependent on underlying brainwaves. Brainwaves rule your life - your emotions, feelings, perceptions. Anything that people do to have an effect or experience, they only have an effect if it changes the brainwaves.  What is BioCybernaut? What is the service provided by you? What are the qualities of what you do?  BioCybernaut is to inner space what an astronaut is to outer space. Deconstructing the word, “bio” means body, “cyber” is the calculating technology.  Cipher - long ago - was used to mean doing arithmetic, and calculations.  Naut is a Greek suffix used to describe someone going on an adventure. We now have Cosmonauts and Astronauts and Biosevennauts who explore inner space.  If brain exploration was looked at from a perspective of travel across the United States - New York meaning you know everything, and California is you know nothing - how far do you think we have gotten?  Making the assumption that the trip started in San Francisco, at least halfway across the Bay Bridge, and we are heading to Oakland.  People seem extremely full of angst and depression when everything seems relatively peaceful if you look at the history of mankind, why are we such an unsettled creature?  We are very aware. A cow may not be anxious or worried when being led to the slaughterhouse because they may not be a very aware creature. Whereas humans have the ability to be aware of past, present and future.  Ramadas said “If you want to live high, you have to live outside of time” and Zen Master Suzuki Roshi said, “time is the basis of fear”.  You may be fine in the present, but you may not be in the future.  Dr. Hardt believes perfectionism is a curable disease. An obsession with perfection creates anxiety and impairs your abilities. Letting go of perfectionism you will be closer to perfectionism.  Early psychological research was able to show that anxiety could impair all forms of performance, mental or physical.  Alphas brain waves are like silver bullets against anxiety. This was a basis for a paper Dr. Hardt published in 1978, where he was able to show that if you took high anxiety people and taught them to increase their alpha, both types of anxiety would drop.  There are 6 and 12-month check-ups with previous patients that used this method and proved that they were actually better off further down the line than the day after training.  Why is there shame around anxiety?  If it is believed that something relating to your mental state that you believe is not optimal or as good as those around you, there will be shame.  Dr. Hardt can help relieve this.  If you look at types of drugs that reduce anxiety, are they messing with alpha brain waves, or how are they working? Is this the science-related between he pharma and what you do or is there a connection?  Humans are Bio Electro Magneto Chemical Organisms - our awareness is dependent on proper functioning of biochemistry, the electrical and the magnetic activity which is produced by biological chemical activity.  Drugs allow you to intervene with biochemistry.  When you are working towards doing something, there are activities in your brain when you are doing brainwave feedback where you are doing your processes through consciousness, which alter underlying biochemistry.  A study done by Jean Penniston discovered the alterations brain wave training has on the blood, which reduced beta-endorphins, which is a stress indicator in the brain.  Brain wave training reduces a bad marker of brain biochemistry, which allows you to intervene in the system any place you like.  How long have you been studying this? You don’t count your birthdays anymore, is that right?  Dr. Hardt had started studying this subject even before he was 26.  When anyone comes over for training, Dr. Hardt will have a cake and put a candle in the middle of it to celebrate the fact that this is their first year of their life.  What is your origin story?  Dr. Hardt was a senior in physics at Carnegie Institute of Technology when he came across a sign that said Dr. Joe Kumea will be talking on brain waves. He decided to go.  Dr. Kumea discovered that humans could control their own brain waves in April 1962, he reported this result to the Western Psychological Association meeting in San Francisco.  Dr. Hardt spent his time reading anything he could find on brain waves.  Dr. Hardt rode his motorcycle across the trans-Canadian highway down where he found the Coast Highway and showed up at Dr. Kumeas lab where he volunteered.  Dr. Hardt went to Joanne Gardner after his initial 3-day test and asked her if he could go into the closet with the equipment to play around. She agreed and continued with her work, evidently forgetting him in the closet. Through the 11th course of their 12th course Chinese lunch Joanne was having with her coworkers, she remembered Dr. Hardt was locked in the basement.  Paul Gorman explained to Dr. Hardt that what he experienced in the chamber was meditation, Dr. Hardt then knew after that summer that his life was going to be about this.  How does plant medicine compare and contrast? Is there a bridge that needs to be closed?  If plants change your brain waves, you’ll have experiences.  A friend of Dr. Hardt went to Peru to record the brain waves during Iowa Ceremonies, and it was reported that the increased alpha brain waves were similar to what Dr. Hardt's training started on, but it lacked the negative effect.  There was a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association where medical students who had access to a brainwave computer wanted to see the effects that smoking marijuana would have on their brain. It was established that it increased the power of alphas and had a slight slowing in frequency.  Marijuana destroys short term memory, whereas Dr. Hardt's training does not.  A Biofeedback researcher named Barbara Brown gave College students LSD - before it became illegal - she discovered that it higher the alpha brain waves in some students, and lowered the alpha brain waves in others. The dividing line was whether or not they were visualizers.  What was one of the biggest personal challenges you had as you developed Biocybernaut and what led you down this path?  Dr. Hardt registered during his senior year, he set up an exchange program between the site department at Duquesne University, where they had some professors who were Jesuit Priests from France, who were teaching phenomenology.  Many professors did not want Dr. Hardt to work within this area. He registered as a grad student and became friends with Timothy Leary. Leary and his wife did a lot of LSD, and he’s a social psychological phenomenon. No matter what Leary did he was studying the structure of his consciousness and noting the ways his body influenced his mind.  Dr. Hardt was doing meditation in the Yogananda tradition along with his work in science.  Dr. Hardt learned that brain waves affect the different response the alpha brain waves have in superconscious states, such as Zen and Yoga.  Dr. Hardt tells Dr. Terrence Barret this, and a few hours gets denied the use of the electrophysiological equipment on the grounds that anyone who is interested in consciousness could not be serious about pursuing a PhD in psychology.  The acting Dean showed interest in the study of consciousness, and this allowed Dr. Hardt to continue his studies.  Can you give us insights into what type of people go through your program? What are the benefits? Give us some stories?  Tony Robbins, his wife and her personal assistant have gone through this. Robbins speaks highly of the Biocybernaut program.  Dr. Hardt has trained royalty, European Royalty and Middle Eastern Royalty who bring a lot of people to partake in the training as well.  Dr. Hardt has trained over 200 Canadian Aboriginal people.  Dr. Hardt has also trained professional athletes.  Dr. Hardt trained the Co-Founder of Canada's second-largest oil and gas company.  Dr. Hardt had trained famous chiefs and Shaman and medicine men and women from who attended 12 years a month's schools that existed up until 1989. One individual trained was Chief Willie Little Child - who was on the Truth and Reconciliation commission - he was the first Aboriginal ever to be elected to the Canadian National Parliament. The work Dr. Hardt did in Canada, gave him an invitation to be adopted into the Cree Indian Nation, and was invited to speak at the United Nations Geneva.  Is there anything that you or your business need right now that people can help out with?  Biocybernaut has a program, a dream system which will allow training to be cut down from seven to five days.  Dr. Hardt requires some help with sharing and spreading his business.  Dr. Hardt built the world's first micro computerized brain wave feedback and analyzing system.  Biocybernaut is a very strong decision making tool.  Resources: Doug: dholt@buncher.com  James: jim@bioseparate.com  Website: www.biocybernaut.com

On this episode of Desi Podcast, Harinder and Gags are joined by Kam and Nina to chat about the build up to the Champions Lrague final. topics include; Last year, there was a lot of hurt in Kiev. Gags, Harinder and Eddie in a room with nothing to do but let it all out. We couldn't process why or what but fast forward a year and man, have the Reds made us pose the same questions but in a positive way. Liverpool 4, Barcelona 0. Suarez… have a nibble of that! Spurs toppled Ajax and they want us to believe it's the same thing but we all know it isn't. Feelings Desi family… how did ya feel when Badda Davinder buried it for 4-0?Madrid. We went, we saw, I came back with Kenny selfie. That was 2014. 4 and half years one we're going back but to a different stadium and for second one in a row. Let me say that again, second UEFA Champions League Final in a row. European Royalty!!! Will lightning strike twice or are we going all guts and glory to bring home number six?Tickets. Got any spares? Touting is rife - let rip!!!Handover to Gags. AI specifics for next week that you want to shareHandover to Harinder - UEFA CL festival stuff and key locations, common sense stuff for MadridHandover to Kam - pent adviceHandover to Nina - what do you want from Sephora?All this and more on this episode of Desi! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our latest episode opens with a discussion of European Royalty before smoothly segueing to a discussion of the one true Sovereign of the Blues himself - Mr. B B King! After learning that B B King was NOT that guy who walked on the moon (WHAT?) we dive deep on this influential figure before Rachel blesses us with her evaluation - is B. B. A A Plus Plus?  Or is the Thrill gone away? Connect with us! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicshemissed Twitter: @musicshemissed Spotify: search for Spotify:user:musicshemissed Web: http://musicshemissed.madewithopinion.com Music: “Jump for Joy” by Scott Holmes http://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/ http://www.facebook.com/ScottHolmesMusic Cover Art provided by Merry Little Doodle https://www.etsy.com/shop/MerryLittleDoodle

Pat and Phil talk Phil's return to El Paso, the Roma Draw, the best and worst LFC kits of the last 10 years, and Pat's emotional vulnerability to the Fast and the Furious

Paul and Chris are in a Portugal airport but that wont stop them bringing you this week's Redmen podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/redmentv. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ciao from your well-traveled Spirit Guides.  We went to a medieval apothecary hoping to see what kind of rot-gut snake oil we could scrounge up.  Turns out all we found was a world-class liquor specialist beloved my European Royalty.  Oh well.  Come join us for a taste...

Martin Van Buren Bates was one of the most famous people of his era. He knew U.S. Presidents and European Royalty. He was also listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest man in the world. Bates lived in Letcher County, Kentucky, where he was a young school teacher in a one-room schoolhouse south of Whitesburg. He later served for the Johnny Rebs during the Civil War. Following the War he toured with various circuses throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. But the greatest aspect of his life was his love affair and marriage to Anna Swan, the tallest woman in the world. Together they shared a special life and left behind a love story that needs to be heard. Presented by Richard Crowe through the Kentucky Humanities Council.

Episode 28: In this episode we are joined by Toronto Comedian James Hartnett, a straight shooter with baseball on the brain. We are also joined via Steve's phone with Siobhan, one of the founding members of Kell's Belles, the greatest Kelly Johnson fan club on the internet. We have an extended sit down with Buck Martinez who tells us of his days in the 70s with the Royals, and Dave provides a poignant history lesson in the little-known links between European Royalty and baseball. Also, Steve runs into some thugs on the subway.

Dr. John Coleman explains why Ron Paul's urge to return to Constitutional policies falls on deaf ears. In The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, he explains how the British Crown and the Rothschilds formed an all powerful group that knows no national boundaries, is above the laws of countries and controls every aspect of politics, religion, commerce and industry, banking, insurance, the drug trade, and the petroleum industry. This is a group answerable to nobody. Americans believe the Constitution protects them against such tyranny. But, in fact we have been trained to reject the very articles designed to protect us from it. Coleman explains how the European Royalty shaped Americans into favoring economic and foreign policies that now force most Americans back to pre-1776 indentured-servant poverty so pleasing to royalty. How can average people avoid that fate? Owning gold protects wealth. Listen to interviews with American Bonanza, Merrex Gold and Helio Resources.

Dr. John Coleman explains why Ron Paul's urge to return to Constitutional policies falls on deaf ears. In The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, he explains how the British Crown and the Rothschilds formed an all powerful group that knows no national boundaries, is above the laws of countries and controls every aspect of politics, religion, commerce and industry, banking, insurance, the drug trade, and the petroleum industry. This is a group answerable to nobody. Americans believe the Constitution protects them against such tyranny. But, in fact we have been trained to reject the very articles designed to protect us from it. Coleman explains how the European Royalty shaped Americans into favoring economic and foreign policies that now force most Americans back to pre-1776 indentured-servant poverty so pleasing to royalty. How can average people avoid that fate? Owning gold protects wealth. Listen to interviews with American Bonanza, Merrex Gold and Helio Resources.

Management, New Feudal System, High Bureaucracy - Crowded Cities, Science Fiction, Futurist Society. Alan's "Shameless Plug"--Available Materials, Donations to Keep Going. Movement off the Road - Agenda 21 - United Nations: Front for World Government. Masonic 33rd Degree - "The Great Work" - Mind Control, Deprogramming - Branches of Freemasonry - Helping a "Brother" - Noble Orders - Police - Buckingham Palace. Bertrand Russell, Scientific Indoctrination - Home-Schooling Law - Parenting, Educating Children - Common Culture, Hollywood - "Governance" - Daniel Webster. Reece Commission, Norman Dodd - Blending of US and Soviet Systems - Eleanor Roosevelt, Pavlov. History of "Protocols" - Russia - Revolutionary Movements - Young Turks, Young Italians, Young Zionist League - Use of Persecution to create Rebellion - Bernard Baruch. European Royalty, Prussia, Germany, Science - Experimental Schools - Authority Figures. "Cancers" from California. Human Potential Movement - New Age Movement, No Tolerance of Different Opinion. *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - March 14, 2008 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Rick removes some of the mystery, but not the glamour, of European Royalty with help from guests Roy Nichols and Norway's Princess Martha Louise. Tour guide Roy Nichols gives Rick an overview of the British royal family and discusses why they remain an important instituion to the average Briton. Princess Martha Louise of Norway, who has written a children's book, "Why Kings and Queens Don't Wear Crowns" explains the modern realities of being from a royal family. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.