This is the full audio version of my blog post on Eleonora von Schwarzenberg. All pictures mentioned in the audio are in this video - yay! But I do swear a bit, so be warned.

Chapters
0:00 How I Stumbled onto Eleonora's Story
1:43 Meet Eleonora
4:58 A Good Man Is Hard to Find
7:39 Marriage Story
12:23 Cheater Cheater Pumpkin Eater
14:10 How to Negotiate with Terrorists...er, Husbands
17:32 Bad Heir Day
21:00 Miracle in Prague
24:50 The Deer Hunter
31:35 Die VampirPrinzessin
38:00 And Then They Dragged Bram Stoker Into This
43:32 My Rebuttal
51:57 Magia Posthuma
56:12 What Happened to Eleonora's Family?

I never intended to write about this woman. I went looking for another Eleonora - Princess Eleonora von Windisch-Graetz (nee Schwarzenberg). I'd stumbled onto a mention of her accidental assassination in Prague in 1848 and couldn't resist looking into it.

But when I Googled her name, I stared in disbelief at what came up: a bunch of references to a vampire princess. Turns out, I was about to stumble down a historical rabbit hole that involved a very different woman with a very similar name and one of my favorite books of all time (Dracula).

Hang onto your hats, folks. This post is what happens when I develop an obsession during quarantine. HISTORY IS SO AWESOME, YOU GUYS.

Original post & downloadable PDF: https://girlinthetiara.com/eleonora-von-schwarzenberg-vampire-princess/

Short(er) 13-minute video version: https://youtu.be/cixBG5hFGEQ

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I tell stories about tiaras and the fascinating royal women who wore them. Join me as I follow these tiaras across generations and countries, through wars and revolutions and—sometimes—into darkness and disappearance and destruction.

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