In 1917 with British casualties mounting on the battlefields of France, and anti-German sentiment on the rise at home, King George V together with his powerful wife was forced to change the Royal Family name to Windsor and a new dynasty was born.
Proud to be king of 'a wonderful people' the first Windsors stirred loyalty, affection and pride throughout the nation and King George was astonished at the tumultuous reception he and Queen Mary received during their Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1935. 'I really think they like me for myself,' he commented.
Did a controversial affair between Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley lead to a savage murder? We explore remarkable new evidence suggesting that Dudley’s wife, Amy Robsart was assassinated so that her husband could be free to marry the Queen.
This is the story of England’s greatest spy who pioneered covert espionage techniques to foil a terror plot to murder Elizabeth I, and to engineer the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
In a gripping day-by-day account of the action, using dramatised scenes and location interviews with top histor...
The death of The Queen's uncle, The Duke of Kent in a plane crash in 1942 has never been explained and seems never to have been fully investigated. The hellraising Prince was, without doubt an embarrassment to The Royal Family and the Government and this, together with the fact that he was suppos...
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