Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History

2013
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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.

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3 - Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors
Apr. 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
Apr. 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
Apr. 08,2013

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

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