Beginning with the first-photographed and second-longest ruling Monarch in British History, the mighty Victoria, we discover how this once sheltered and virtually penniless girl came to rule an Empire spanning half the globe. The founder of modern Monarchy in Great Britain and across the world, Victoria's impact upon her country and people is inestimable.
Meet the Normans: famous for fighting at Hastings in 1066, being shot in the New Forest, eating far too many lampreys and having far too many affairs. Not to mention starving in Oxford Castle, murdering Thomas Becket, fighting The Crusades, signing The Magna Carta and losing their jewels in the W...
Henry VII was the founder of one of England's greatest Royal dynasties, the Tudors - and also happened to be a violent tyrant who stole a throne to which he barely held a claim. One of England's strangest and most sinister Monarchs, Henry VII began as an upstart usurper and died a Machiavellian s...
A tale of four Georges and a William beset by bad father-son relationships and bouts of mysterious madness. The Stuarts played out their petty rivalries in Palace and Court in an atmosphere of over-indulgence, decadence, obesity and addiction whilst thousands died in the bloody battle of Culloden...
