Did people have lots of sex during the plague? Meet KATIE KENNEDY, the TikTok star spreading history's hottest gossip
Is it true that Marie Antoinette slept with her son? How did 1700s women sit down in their massive dresses? Did Charles II invent dogging? These are just some of the historical questions being answered by 25-year-old Katie Kennedy in her snappy, sassy social-media videos, and Gen Z are lapping it up.
Kennedy – who goes by The History Gossip online – has more than 683,000 social-media followers, with her videos racking up to 5.9 million views. TikTok has named her one of its '2025 Creators to Watch' and recently she released a book, also called , full of juicy titbits from centuries past.
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