Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

2013
1 Seasons
3 Episodes
5 (1)
Ended

Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explores how the physical and mental health of our past monarchs has shaped the history of the nation.

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3. Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors

April 22, 2013

Lucy concludes her investigation into the medical histories of the royal family by taking a look at Queen Victoria and her descendants.

2. Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

April 15, 2013

Lucy takes a look at the medical histories of the later Stuarts, from the exile of James II and the succession of William and Mary to the beginnning of a new dynasty, the Hanoverians.

1. Tudors to Stuarts: From Gods to Men

April 08, 2013

Lucy looks back to the monarchs who were reigning in the Tudor and Stuart dynasties.

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Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, explores how the physical and mental health of our past monarchs has shaped the history of the nation.