Hello, and welcome to the Season 3, Episode 01 of the Bones & Bobbins Podcast!
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The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 01: The Princesses Are Not Okay
S03E01: “Princess” Alice Roosevelt, the irrepressible eldest daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, who was pretty much always up to no good, and Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, who was pretty much never up to no good, because she was quite sure that she’d swallowed an entire glass piano.
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Choose your anxiety adventure: Attend an unchaperoned ball with Emily Spinach (the snake who is either a boa constrictor or a garter snake; unclear), or believe, with absolute certainty, that something inside you–or maybe even your whole body–is made of glass, and that it could shatter at any moment.
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Links to research materials:
“Princess” Alice Roosevelt:
- Washingtonienne: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/books/review/Mallon-t.html
- Alice Roosevelt: 27 Facts about the White House’s First ‘Wild Child’: https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2019/05/alice-roosevelt/
- A Presidential Daughter You Could Pick On: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/12/first-daughters-alice-roosevelt-113302/
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alice-Roosevelt-Longworth
- The pillow: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a5/64/7b/a5647bb5affe139ecae7d82aa28ae308.jpg
- Alice Roosevelt: The First Daughter Who Climbed Onto The White House Roof For A Cigarette And Buried A Voodoo Doll In The Yard: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2021/09/21/alice-roosevelt-the-first-daughter-who-climbed-onto-the-white-house-roof-for-a-cigarette-and-buried-a-voodoo-doll-in-the-yard/?safari=1
Princess Alexandra of Bavaria:
- BBC Between the Ears episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p01hypw7
- BBC Article on The Glass Delusion: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32625632#:~:text=The%20%22glass%20delusion%22%20is%20an,and%20thus%20liable%20to%20shatter.&text=The%20late%20medieval%20French%20King,notable%20sufferers%20of%20glass%20delusion
- History Article: https://www.history.com/news/the-delusion-that-made-nobles-think-their-bodies-were-made-of-glass
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alexandra_of_Bavaria
Further Reading:
- Nothing to see this time!