Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets

Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets

  • 2020
  • 2 Seasons
  • 6 Episodes
  •  9  (2)
  •   Returning Series

In this 3-part documentary series, Lucy Worsley travels across Britain and Europe visiting the locations where royal history was made. In palaces and castles and on battlefields she investigates how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology.

Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets
Seasons
The Russian Revolution
3. The Russian Revolution
September 12, 2021
The October Revolution of 1917 has gone down in history as the only Russian Revolution that really mattered. But Lucy Worsley reveals that the earlier revolution in February 1917 was downplayed in Bolshevik history books and films, despite the fact that it was the truly spontaneous popular uprising that swept the Czar from power.
George IV and the Regency
2. George IV and the Regency
September 05, 2021
Lucy Worsley reveals how mental health problems forced King George III to relinquish power to his debauched and extravagant son, George IV. Was this really an era of elegance and regal splendor or an age of radicalism and revolution? How were myths and secrets used to save the British monarchy?
The Reformation
1. The Reformation
August 29, 2021
Was Henry VIII's desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn the real reason for England's split from Catholic Europe? Or was a secret political agenda at work behind the scenes?
Lucy Worsleys Royal Myths and Secrets

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In this 3-part documentary series, Lucy Worsley travels across Britain and Europe visiting the locations where royal history was made. In palaces and castles and on battlefields she investigates how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology.
  • Premiere Date
    June 21, 2020
  • Rating
    9  (2)